Prohibited funding case: EC adjourns hearing till April 18

ISLAMABAD, March 28 (Online): Accepting PTI counsel plea, the Election Commission (EC) has adjourned the hearing of prohibited funding case till April 18.

A 3-member bench of EC presided over by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja took up the case for hearing Tuesday.

Counsel for PTI Anwar Maqsood and Naveed Anjum appeared in EC.

Anwar Mansoor pleaded we have filed petition in high court and high court has fixed the hearing on Friday. We wanted copy of the decision which was provided too late to us.

The CEC remarked you should have told me earlier. Tell us this was last chance for giving reply. Much time has elapsed in regard to this decision.

The counsel for PTI said “I obtain evidences through some one. The addresses of the people who have given funds to us are not with us. We have to collect all these evidences. Give us time.

The hearing of the case was adjourned till April 18.

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