Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on non-persecution.
A 5-member bench of ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan heard a reference filed by one Hashim Ali Bhutta seeking disqualification of Imran Khan for receiving funds from prohibited sources.
When the ECP bench resumed the hearing, the application or his counsel did not appear before the bench.
Upon this the ECP dismissed the petition for non-persecution.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has adjourned till July 12 the hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on charges of collecting party funds through “prohibited” means.
With his petition, Mr Bhutta had attached some documents claiming that the PTI had received around $3 million through various sources in Texas and California in the US.
Mr Bhutta’s counsel, Sharafat Chaudhry, during the last hearings had argued that Imran Khan, being the party head, had submitted a certificate from 2010 to 2015 stating that the PTI had not collected funds through “prohibited means”, whereas he had submitted the evidence that the PTI funds were collected through “prohibited” means.
