The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received ‘prohibited funds’ from 34 foreign nationals and issued the party a show cause notice.
The election commission, in its verdict stated the party violated Article 17 of the Constitution. A three-member bench of the ECP announced the unanimous verdict — reserved in June earlier this year.
“The Commission directs that a notice may be issued to the Respondent party [PTI] in terms of Rule-6 of PPR 2002, as to why the aforementioned prohibited funds may not be confiscated. The office is also directed to initiate any other action under the law, in light of this order of the Commission,” said the 68-page judgement on the case.
“This Commission is constrained to hold that Mr Imran Khan failed to discharge his obligations as mandated under the Pakistani Statutes. The Chairman PTI has or successive five years (2008-2009 to 2012-2013) under review and examination has submitted Form-1 and signed a Certificate which is not consistent with [the] accounting information before us which has been gathered and complied on the basis of information obtained from Banks through [the] State Bank of Pakistan,” said the judgement by the ECP.
