The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) alleged bias in the foreign funding case.
According to a news outlet, lawyers Anwar Mansoor Khan and Shah Khawar filed a petition on behalf of PTI’s Amir Kayani.
The PTI made the ECP and 17 other political parties respondents in the case. The parties include the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Awami Muslim League (AML), Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), Balochistan National Party (BNP), Awami National Party (ANP) and others.
The petition called on the court to also decide the cases against the 17 political parties within a month. It stated that the ECP was acting impartially while taking action only against the PTI, and that the commission had refused to scrutinise the accounts of the 17 other political parties like the PTI accounts thus, the PTI has become the [only ]affected party.
“The Election Commission should also be ordered to scrutinise the accounts of 17 political parties,” the petition prayed.
