Pakistan’s election fee on Friday issued a understand to former premier Imran Khan and ordered him to look in my opinion on August 23 on the listening to within the prohibited investment case towards his birthday party.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday party and the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) had been at loggerheads. Khan has been accusing Leader Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja of being biased.
Pakistan’s election fee on Tuesday stated that Khan’s birthday party won finances towards the principles from 34 international nationals, together with a businesswoman of Indian-origin, in a big setback to the previous top minister.
A 3-member bench of the ECP issued a display motive understand to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf birthday party for receiving prohibited investment from international nationals and foreign-based corporations and preserving it below wraps. It additionally sought an evidence from the birthday party and its leader Khan.
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In step with the ECP web site, the case titled “Realize to Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the case of Rule 6 of Political Events Rule 2006, in compliance of judgment by way of the fee dated August 2 in case identify Akbar Sher Babar” has been fastened for listening to on August 23, at 10 am.
The case used to be filed in November, 2014 by way of PTI founding member Akbar S Babar, who’s not related to the birthday party.
The ECP in its verdict issued a understand to the birthday party asking why the finances will have to now not be confiscated, and it additionally stated that it used to be “constrained to carry that Imran Khan did not discharge his duties as mandated below the Pakistani statutes.”
Khan, in a speech on Thursday, rejected the decision by way of announcing that the investment used to be won by way of the birthday party in 2012 when it used to be now not prohibited. He accused his fighters of looking to oust him from politics on technical grounds.
One after the other, the ECP additionally accredited for listening to a reference by way of lawmakers of the ruling alliance on Thursday looking for the disqualification of Khan from public place of business at the foundation of a verdict by way of the ECP within the prohibited investment case.
Its listening to has been fastened on August 18, in line with the ECP.
The ECP’s verdict got here after The Monetary Instances newspaper lately revealed a tale titled ‘The extraordinary case of the cricket fit that helped fund Khan’s political upward push’.
The file states that charges have been paid to Wootton Cricket Restricted, which, regardless of the title, used to be in truth a Cayman Islands-incorporated corporate owned by way of Naqvi, the founding father of Dubai-based Abraaj Staff.
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