PTI to file judicial reference against chief election commissioner.

ISLAMABAD -- PTI has decided to file a judicial reference against Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, sources told Geo News, as the party takes its tirade with the ECP chief up a notch.

The decision came during a high-level PTI meeting chaired by Imran Khan, where the party leaders reviewed the coalition government's recent meeting with the CEC and other Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) members.

Khan and other PTI leaders have repeatedly demanded that the chief election commissioner resign from his post and the ECP be reconstituted before the next general elections.

The meeting's participants also exchanged views over the ECP's attitude in the foreign funding case, according to sources.

The PTI also decided that provincial governments would also take action against the election commission, and the provincial assemblies - in Punjab and Kyber Pakhtunkhwa - would pass no-confidence resolutions against the ECP.

The meeting comes after Khan and his party have come under fire following a Financial Times report, which revealed that businessman...

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