The meeting was scheduled to further securitise the PTI accounts particularly in light of all the PTI bank statements for the period from 2009-13 requisitioned by the ECP from the State Bank of Pakistan. The scrutiny committee was formed on March 27 of this year to scrutinise PTI foreign funding accounts in one month. The foreign funding case was first filed in November 2014 by the PTI’s former central vice president Akbar S Babar, who had alleged corruption and other illegalities in the party’s funding. Since start of the case, the PTI has repeatedly challenged the ECP’s jurisdiction to scrutinise the PTI accounts and challenged the PTI membership of the petitioner Akbar S Babar. The last PTI writ petition in the IHC challenging formation of the ECP scrutiny committee to audit PTI foreign funding and the PTI membership of Babar was dismissed by a single IHC bench on July 24.

Source: The Express Tribune October 03, 2018 03:33 UTC