ECP rejects all petitions of PTI in foreign funding case.

ISLAMABAD -- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday dismissed four pleas of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the foreign funding case. The ECP ruled that the Scrutiny Committee would continue its work, ordering both parties to appear before the committee on October 14. On October 1, the Election Commission of Pakistan reserved its verdict on four applications by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking secrecy in the scrutiny of its foreign funding case. Akbar S Babar, former PTI member and petitioner, had filed the foreign funding case before the ECP in 2014, alleging that nearly $3 million in illegal foreign funds were collected through two offshore companies and that money was sent through illegal 'hundi' channels from the Middle East to accounts of PTI employees. He had also alleged that the foreign accounts used to collect funds were concealed from the annual audit reports submitted to the ECP.

During the previous hearing, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (r) Sardar Muhammad Raza said that the PTI had submitted four new miscellaneous applications to the committee, adding that they 'just wanted to increase the burden of work. He said that the investigative committee had forwarded the applications to him so that he could make a decision. PTI counsel, in all four applications, had demanded that the leakage of information should be stopped, in response to which the chief election commissioner...