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F.F Case: IHC Summons Secretary EC, Akbar Baber

Islamabad (August 22, 2017): Islamabad High Court summoned reply from Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and former party leader Akbar S Babar over PTI petition claiming hearing of party funding case was not in jurisdiction of ECP.

The judge of IHC Justice Amir Farooq heard the PTI petition regarding ECP jurisdiction over party funding case.

Imran Khan’s counsel Anwar Mansoor told the court that ECP has ordered the PTI Chairman Imran Khan to submit written reply over foreign funding to PTI.

“However hearing party funding case is not in ECP jurisdiction, therefore ECP decision of May 8, 2017 should be declared null and void as the party foreign funding case has already under proceeding in Supreme Court,” he told the court.

On Justice Farooq question Imran’s counsel told the court that after unavailability of bench in SC the case was brought to IHC.

On which court ordered the summons of secretary election commission and Akbar  S Babar and adjourned the hearing for August 28.

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