ISLAMABAD: In a latest development in prohibited funding case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI), the Islamabad High Court approved on Saturday Akbar S. Babar’s request to become party in the appeal against the verdict of the Election Commission of Pakistan.
A three-member bench of the ECP declared in early August that the PTI ‘knowingly and willfully’ received funding from prohibited sources, including foreign nationals. It had ruled that PTI’s funding from Wootton Cricket, owned by Abraaj Group founder Arif Naqvi, was from a prohibited source.
It also declared that funding received from more than 350 foreign companies and 34 foreign nationals in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada was also from prohibited sources.
A week later, the PTI challenged the verdict in the Islamabad High Court. It also requested the court to suspend the show-cause notice issued by the commission.
Akbar S. Babar, a founding member of the PTI and the originator of the concerned case against the PTI, filed an application in the IHC on 17 August. He requested the court to include him in the proceedings.
