Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan Tuesday filed a written reply denied committing any wrongdoing after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) warned that contempt proceedings would be initiated against him.
The ECP had summoned Imran Khan several times on an application filed by a former PTI vice-president Akbar S Babar, in which the applicant insisted that the party had mishandled funds and a contempt notice be issued to Imran Khan.
Earlier, Imran Khan had ignored the notices issued by the ECP claiming that the ECP had no jurisdiction regarding the party’s affairs.
A four-member ECP bench headed by Justice Mohammad Raza Khan heard the contempt application filed by Babar against Imran Khan.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Imran and ordered him to submit relevant details pertaining to Niazi Services Limited — an offshore company owned by the PTI chairman — before the court — within a one-week period, Dawn news reported.
A three-member bench was hearing a petition seeking the disqualification of the PTI chief and Secretary-General Jehangir Tareen.
The petition, filed by the PML-N’s Hanif Abassi, accuses the two PTI leaders of not declaring their assets to the ECP and seeks to unseat them based on their alleged violations of the Income Tax Ordinance, 1979 and the Peoples Act, 1974.
While the defence has maintained that Khan declared the flats under an amnesty scheme, the bench noted that the amnesty scheme was meant for Pakistani residents, adding that “Niazi Services is not a Pakistani company.”
PML-N’s lawyer Akram Sheikh, however, maintained before the court that the London flats were not declared in the 1972 nomination papers. The hearing was adjourned till Wednesday morning.
