Prohibited funding case: PTI challenges FIA summons to Imran Khan in LHC.

ISLAMABAD -- PTI's legal team has challenged the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) summons to the party chairman Imran Khan in Lahore High Court (LHC), seeking a clean chit in the case which, it termed was part of the government's political witch hunt.

Khan's party in its petition disputed the FIA's notice for Khan's appearance before the agency on November 7 and made the Ministry of Interior, DG FIA, Deputy Director FIA, and the investigation officer party in the petition.

The petition said FIA sent the notice with the intent of political victimisation on October 31.

'The FIA's inquiry regarding PTI Punjab's bank account is based on bad faith. The probe was initiated to harass the former prime minister,' the petition said.

The inquiry was aimed at benefitting the political rivals, the petition alleged. 'No one has ever objected to the PTI's opening party bank accounts. And in the ECP's (Election Commission of Pakistan) ruling there are no instructions for FIA to investigate [PTI's] bank accounts,' the petition read.

It further said the ECP neither asked Khan for an explanation nor did it demand any details about his bank accounts. 'The ECP had only asked Khan to furnish a record of the transaction.'

The petition asserted that the funds from PTI Punjab's account were spent on party office running costs, adding that raising funds was every political party's...

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