On Tuesday, August 2, at 10 a.m., the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will make its decision in the protracted prohibited funding case — previously known as the foreign funding case — against the PTI.
Akbar S. Babar, a founding member of the party, filed the lawsuit, which has been ongoing since November 14, 2014. Babar, who is no longer connected to the PTI, said that the organization’s funding from Pakistan and overseas had been subject to major financial irregularities.
The PTI claims that the funds does not come from forbidden sources and has denied any wrongdoing. ECP withheld its decision in the case’s last month.
On January 4, the ECP’s scrutiny committee, formed in March 2018 to examine the PTI’s foreign funding in one month, finally submitted its report after 95 hearings and nearly four years.
According to the report, the party under-reported an amount of Rs312 million over a four-year period, between FY2009-10 and FY2012-13. Year-wise details show that an amount of over Rs145m was under-reported in FY2012-13 alone.
The hearing set for tomorrow will be presided over by a three-member panel, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikander Sultan Raja, and including Shah Muhammad Jatoi and Nisar Ahmed Durrani.
