PTI moves court to suspend ECP's notice in prohibited funding case.

ISLAMABAD -- The PTI on Saturday challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision to reject the party's objection to the show cause notice in prohibited funding case.

After the ECP decided in August last year that the PTI secured over $7 million in illegal funding, it issued a show-cause notice, asking the party to justify why further legal action should not be taken against it for financial irregularities.

Instead of replying to the notice, the PTI filed a request to set it aside and sought cross-examination of key witnesses including the ECP's committee that scrutinised the party's accounts and bank officers.

The ECP on March 22 rejected the PTI's application to cross-examine the witnesses and set...

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