IHC to resume hearing of PTI petition challenging ECP fact finding report tomorrow.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will Tuesday (tomorrow) resume hearing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) petition challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)'s fact finding report in prohibited funding case against the party.

A three-member bench of IHC headed by Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Babar Sattar will conduct hearing of the petition filed by the PTI Additional Secretary General Omar Ayyub through his counsels former attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan, Shah Khawar Advocate and Faisal Fareed Advocate and prayed to the court to declare the ECP's decision dated August 2 as illegal. Previously, the bench sought written arguments from the PTI while it also directed the PTI lawyer to provide a copy of these arguments to Akbar S Babar who is a disgruntled PTI leader and a complainant in the prohibited foreign funding case.

In the petition, the PTI lawyer stated that the petitioner is grossly aggrieved by the Fact Finding Report heard on 21-06-2022 and announced on 02-08-2022 by the Election Commission of Pakistan. He added that the petitioner being utterly dissatisfied of the Impugned Fact Finding Report, being contrary to facts and the law, additionally having been passed in excess of authority and in violation of the judgments of the superior courts, seeks to challenge the Impugned Fact Finding Report.

The petitioner added that as the impugned fact finding report followed by the show cause notice dated 05-08-2022 (received on 06-08-2022) is of the respondent, being an administrative authority, and whereas there is no provision in law providing for an appellate authority to challenge the illegal orders passed by the respondent, the petitioner, has no other efficacious remedy available but to impugn the...