PTI seeks decision on all parties' foreign funding cases in one go.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawyer Anwar Mansoor Khan has moved an application before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking it to decide all foreign funding cases together.

The ECP reserved its judgement on the most recent PTI application in a series of applications and writ petitions to delay a verdict in the almost eight-year-old foreign funding case.

The hearing resumed on Tuesday and PTI lawyer Anwar Mansoor Khan once again repeated the legal provisions of political funding. He concluded his arguments by committing that the PTI would conclude its arguments on Wednesday (today). The ECP is expected to allow the petitioner's lawyer, Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah, to respond to the conclusive arguments of PTI spread over several weeks.

Talking to reporters outside the ECP, the petitioner and PTI founding member Akbar S. Babar said that after almost eight long years of struggle the case may have come to its conclusive stage. He said the purpose of the case was to institutionalise political parties so that they could act as nurseries of credible and competent leadership. He said Pakistan needs fresh and competent leadership but when political parties are individual or family fiefdoms, the fountains of leadership dry up.

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He said the time has come for Imran Khan to take major decisions, as he was now at crossroads. He took a path that has ruined a political party meant to change Pakistan's politics and not to decay it further. He said Imran Khan took the path of power at any cost. It was time for him to fade away and hand over the reigns of the party to those who built the party from scratch and remain committed to its founding ideals.

Mr Babar gave the example of Nelson Mandela who sacrificed 27 years of his life for democracy and human rights. But when the time came he relinquished power and the party leadership and passed it on to those who struggled for change.

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