ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawyer, Akram Sheikh said that the Election Commission of Pakistan should not delay the cases questioning funding to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
He was present at court during the hearing on Wednesday of disqualification requests of PTI Chairperson Imran Khan and a party leader, Jehangir Tareen.
The requests were submitted by PML-N’s Talal Chaudhry and Muhammad Khan Daha.
During the hearing, the chief election commissioner asked the PML-N lawyer if the cases were pending at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. To which, Sheikh said the cases of money trail for Imran’s Bani Gala residence and foreign funding for PTI are pending at the ECP as well as SC, but should not be adjourned for an indefinite period.
He added ECP should take control of their own plans.ECP adjourned the case till June 5.
PML-N’s Daniyal Aziz while talking to media said, “The speaker references [seeking Imran’s disqualification] were dismissed for being cases raised before the elections of 2013,” he said outside the election commission office on Wednesday. “But the cases filed against the prime minister before the elections are still being heard.”
