Election Commission of Pakistan. Photo: Geo News

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan(ECP) on Thursday demanded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to present its financial records by September 11.

During the ECP hearing, petitioner, Akbar S Babar, demanded the ECP to present a show-cause notice to the party.

Meanwhile, in today's hearing on the petition filed by the party to stop ECP from party funding probe, Islamabad High Court`s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani directed PTI to present the sources of party funds to the ECP in two weeks.

Interestingly, in its previous hearing, ECP directed the party to submit entire record pertaining to the party's funding until September 7. The chief election commissioner (CEC), in the short order, said this is ?the last chance for the party to furnish details of its accounts?.

Foreign funding case: ECP orders PTI to submit account details by Sept 7

The five-member bench, headed by the CEC, earlier reserved its order in the case

The party has failed to submit details of its accounts and funds to the ECP since the past two years, however, it has submitted the records to the Supreme Court.

PTI lawyer Anwar Masood had requested for discontinuation of the party's foreign funding case in the ECP on the premise that a similar case is also being heard in the Supreme Court ? in which the ECP is a respondent. CEC Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, who is heading the five-member bench hearing the petition, said the party should file a petition citing its discontinuation request in the Supreme Court.