{"id":13961,"date":"2017-08-16T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T07:37:05","slug":"ecp-reserved-decision-on-the-pti-foreign-funding-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13961","title":{"rendered":"ECP reserved decision on the PTI foreign funding case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, August 16 (TNS):<\/strong> The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday reserved its decision in a foreign funding case against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).<\/p>\n<p>PTI lawyer Anwar Masood requested for discontinuation of the party&#8217;s foreign funding case in the ECP on the premise that a similar case is also being heard in the Supreme Court \u2014 in which the ECP is a respondent.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, who is heading the five-member bench hearing the petition filed by former PTI member Akbar S Babar, said the party should file a petition citing its discontinuation request in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The party has failed to submit details of its accounts and funds to the ECP since the past two years, however, it has submitted the records to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the CEC reserved decision on the PTI counsel&#8217;s plea, stating that it will be announced later Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, August 16 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday reserved its decision in a foreign funding case against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). PTI lawyer Anwar Masood requested for discontinuation of the party&#8217;s foreign funding case in the ECP on the premise that a similar case is also being heard in the Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13964,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions\/13964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}