ECP Reserves Verdict In PTI Prohibited Funding Case.

ISLAMABAD -- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday reserved its verdict in the much-delayed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) prohibited funding case - previously referred to as the foreign funding case as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) said that the case was a matter of national interest.

A three-member bench of the ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja heard the case. It was reserved after eight long years of hearings. Over 95 hearings of the case were held while the scrutiny committee held 96 sessions. However, the CEC, on the occasion, said that parties to the case could be summoned again if need arose. The CEC said that some leading lawyers gave their arguments in the case. Last week, Raja had directed the ECP staff to list the foreign finding case against the PTI as 'prohibited funding' from now onwards after accepting the party's stance on the matter.

The CEC made it clear that the Election Commission was least bothered about the agitation the PTI had threatened with outside the ECP office. 'And we will do justice in the case and make sure no wrong is done to any party,' he resolved.

Earlier, speaking before the ECP bench, Akbar S. Babar, the petitioner, said it was for the first time in the country's history that any political party was giving details of the funds it had received from abroad. 'As a matter of fact, each and every party should be answerable to the commission,' he stressed. In his remarks, the CEC said that now that the hearing of the PTI's case was over, it was the ECP's desire that other parties' cases should also conclude.

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