Islamabad (October 12, 2017): The Election Commission of Pakistan issued on Thursday non-bailable warrants (NBW) for arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in relation to the contempt of court case against him.
A five-member ECP bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice Sardar Raza Khan heard contempt of court case against the PTI chief.
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As the PTI chief did not submit reply on the show-cause notice issued to him by the commission, the ECP issued his non-bailable warrants for arrest.
The Commission directed police to arrest Imran and produce him before the Commission on October 26, 2017.
During the hearing, PTI counsel Shahid Gondal told the Commission that the case, pertaining to the ECP’s jurisdiction to hear the plea, was pending the Islamabad High Court until October 11.
It is pertinent to mention that earlier the IHC had suspended the bailable arrest warrants issued against Imran Khan by the ECP.
The ECP had earlier also issued bailable warrants of arrest against Imran for failing to appear before it in the contempt of court case against him.
Akbar Babar, the petitioner who had filed the foreign funding case against the PTI leadership, had informed the ECP that the PTI chief had accused it of being biased in the foreign funding case following which his counsel tendered an apology with the commission.
The PTI chief had challenged the ECP’s decision to hear a contempt case against him. The PTI had petitioned the IHC seeking an end to the contempt of court hearing against Imran.
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