Shamyl Sheheryar
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In a major move towards holding the PTI accountable, the Election Commission of Pakistan today ordered PTI to produce all the financial instruments sought by the petitioner (ASB) since November last year without fail and much before the next hearing set for January 16, 2017 failing which all legal inferences would be drawn.
The documents ordered to be submitted include; registration and transfer of funds documents of 2 Offshore Limited Liability Companies or PTI USA LLCs 5975 and 6160 registered under the signatures of Imran Khan in the USA to collect over $ 3.0 million illegal foreign funds.
The ECP Order for production of documents also include bank statements of PTI Accounts not disclosed to the ECP in their annual audit reports and identified by the petitioner (ASB);
Todays ECP Order also seeks bank statements of accounts held by PTI employees which were used as a cover to receive illegal foreign funding to the tune of Crores of Rupees. Money was transferred to these accounts through hundi and eventually siphoned off without any record.
The ECP also ordered PTI to produce evidence regarding the Lloyds Bank Account allegedly used to collect donations internationally to fund the November 2, 2016 lockdown of Islamabad. The account has not been disclosed in the PTI Audit Reports submitted to the ECP.
The Chief Election Commissioner held PTI responsible for delays in proceeding with the case. He said PTI is solely responsible for the undue and unwarranted delays which are not helping PTI but is hurting it. Do you realize this he taunted the PTI lawyer.
The CEC stated that he had been soft with PTI allowing delays to scrutiny of PTI accounts despite no written Stay Order of the Islamabad High Court. He said the ECP lawyer was never authorized to give any commitment to the IHC to suspend scrutiny of PTI accounts.
The Chief Election Commissioner also disclosed that the ECP had recently initiated scrutiny of accounts of all major political parties under a separate Political Funding Section recently formed to scrutinize party accounts. (A major achievement of the foreign funding case that must have acted as a catalyst to initiate institutionalized scrutiny of party accounts).
Another presiding Judge taunted the PTI lawyer with the comment so we should also suspend scrutiny of other parties audit reports also as PTI had demanded suspension of PTI accounts scrutiny in the IHC. Hinting at PTI double standards, the Judge remarked that PTI should be consistent in its stance, in one case with similar matter it claims ECP jurisdiction while in another case it questions ECP jurisdiction.
Patience always pays and truth will eventually be smoked out of the PTI holes. Todays proceedings are a major step in that direction.
Next surprise move; the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Details later.
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