ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has once again failed to submit its reply in foreign funding case to the Election Commission of Pakistan. A four-member bench of the ECP headed by Abdul Ghafoor Soomro hearing the case was told that the party would submit its response in the next hearing. The bench summoned the PTI’s finance secretary and adjourned the hearing of the case until December 12. The foreign funding case was filed by Akbar S Babar, a founding PTI member, in November 2014 after he developed differences with party’s Chairman Imran Khan over alleged corruption within the party and violation of laws in collection and use of party funds. Following the hearing, Akbar S Babar told the media that PTI was reluctant to submit its reply before the bench and was attempting to prolong the case.
Published in Daily Times, November 22nd 2017.
