In 2014, Babar filed a petition in the ECP seeking the disqualification of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for allegedly obtaining funding from illegal sources and discrepancies in the party?s accounts

ISLAMABAD: A five-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) heard on Tuesday (today) the foreign funding case against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on a petition by disgruntled party founder Akbar S. Babar.

The bench is being headed by by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) retired Justice Sardar Raza Mohammad Khan.

The CEC in its December 12 hearing had summoned for the second time PTI finance secretary Azhar Tariq Khan, after the party had failed to submit its reply to Babar?s objections raised against PTI documents submitted in ECP and Supreme Court.

PTI submits accounts? details to ECP in foreign funding case

PTI asked the ECP to give a receipt to the party, but the request was flatly denied by the ECP

In 2014, Babar filed a petition in the ECP seeking the disqualification of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for allegedly obtaining funding from illegal sources and discrepancies in the party?s accounts.

He also claimed that funds worth $3 million were collected by the PTI chief, transferred from illegal channels from the Middle East to bank accounts of PTI members.