Akbar S. Babar files an application in IHC requesting to become a party in PTI appeal in foreign funding case.

ISLAMABAD, August 17 (SABAH): Founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Akbar Sher Babar has filed an application in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) requesting to become a party in PTI appeal in foreign funding case.
The IHC larger bench would hear PTI’s appeal today (Thursday). The leader revealed that PTI supremo Imran Khan had filed 10 or 11 petitions in the IHC and even he reached the Supreme Court of Pakistan to stop foreign funding case and to stop the truth to manifest. He added that Financial Times’ story directly challenged the financial integrity of Imran Khan and nullified all claims of negating any theft.

Akbar S. Babar asked as to why PTI chief had not initiated litigation against Financial Times in the UK and not issued any statement of condemnation against the newspaper. “Why did not Imran Khan file a defamation suit against Financial Times nor claimed for damages and that people will keep raising these questions”, he questioned.

Akbar S. Babar expressed these views while talking to media persons after submitting an application to become the party in foreign funding case in IHC, which has been filed against the Election Commission of Pakistan judgment by PTI. He said that PTI has filed a writ petition in the IHC against the August 2 decision of the ECP and they had not been made a party in this petition, so they had requested the Islamabad High Court thereof.

Akbar Sher Babar said that it was inevitable for them to be a party in the case and that during the last eight years; PTI had made countless efforts to separate them from this case. Moreover, on March 14, the PTI had once again tried to mislead the ECP in its written submissions to the Commission. “They used to run accounts in the name of their own top leadership and expressed their indifference to them; there was a fake affidavit which has now been proved that the $2.1 million of Wootton Cricket Club were obtained from Pakistanis through Dubai. The ECP decision has proved that this was an illegal act because they could not do political fundraising in the UAE”, Akbar maintained. He requested to be made a party so that the larger bench of the IHC could be assisted. Akbar called the funding case as the worst mega scandal in Pakistan’s history in which all PTI top leadership was included. He added that all he used to utter about PTI had come true. Financial Times’ story has proved that out of $2.1 million 1.3 have come from Abraj, a company which has been dissolved with its owner Arif Masood Naqvi being trialed in a New York court for fraudulent act worth $1 billion.