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ECP Adjourns Hearing of Contempt Case Against Imran

Islamabad (August 23, 2017): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday adjourned hearing of contempt of court case against PTI chief Imran Khan till September 14, 2017.

The PTI chief did not file reply in the ECP even today the earlier notice regarding the contempt of court proceedings against him.

The commission was hearing the contempt of court case against the PTI chief filed by PTI dissident and one of the founding members, Akbar S. Babar.

Imran Khan had initially challenged maintainability of the contempt petition and raised objections over ECP’s jurisdiction to initiate contempt proceedings against him; the commission, however, declared on August 10 that it had the legal right to hear the contempt case. It then issued a formal show-cause notice to the PTI chairman, asking him to submit a reply by Aug 23.

PTI chief’s counsel Babar Awan appeared before the five-member ECP bench — headed by Chief Election Commissio­ner (CEC) retired Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza — on Tuesday and pleaded that they wanted to challenge the ECP’s judgement regarding the maintainability of the contempt petition and hence, should be granted some time to do so.

The counsel further said that the ECP’s notice was received on August 21, to which the CEC said that it had been issued on August 15.

The ECP then decided to issue another show-cause notice to Imran Khan and adjourned the case hearing until September 14.

Earlier, while talking to reporters, Akbar S. Babar had praised the ECP for exercising its constitutional right of bringing the powerful under the law. He had alleged that Imran Khan considered himself above the law by refusing to comply with at least 21 ECP orders during the course of the foreign funding case filed in November 2014.

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