ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) verdict in which they were found guilty of taking funds from foreign sources, in the Islamabad High Court.
In a unanimous decision, a three-member ECP bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja declared that the PTI ‘knowingly and willfully’ received funding from prohibited sources, including foreign nationals.
The case pertains to the PTI’s funding before the year 2014, especially in 2013 when the results of general elections turned the PTI into a major political force in Parliament from a one-seat party.
According to a petition filed on Wednesday, the PTI requested the court to “suspend the operation of the Impugned Fact Finding Report dated 02.08.2022 of the ECP” as they alleged that the report “is perverse, incorrect and in excess of authority and jurisdiction.”
The party also prayed to the court to suspend the show cause notice issued by the commission.
