Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday suspended its earlier order to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding PTI’s foreign funding case.
A two member bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and including Justice Babar Sattar, suspended the earlier order given by the court’s single-judge bench comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani.
The bench also combined the PTI’s petition against the alleged bias of the Election Commission with the intra-court appeal.
On April 14, IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani rejected the PTI’s writ petition and directed the electoral body to decide the matter in 30 days.
In its petition, the PTI has accused the commission of targeting only the PTI and has sought the court’s directive to the ECP to also decide similar cases against the PML-N, PPP and all other political parties within a month.
It has sought the court’s directive to the ECP for scrutiny of other political parties’ accounts by the State Bank of Pakistan and to publicise the details of all parties’ accounts after the scrutiny report.
The PTI had made the ECP and 17 political parties respondents in the case. The parties include the PML-N, PPP, MQM-P, JUI-F, AML, TLP, BAP, BNP and ANP.
