Web Desk (LTN NEWS): On Monday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gave Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), one more week to respond to the Toshakhana case against him.
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan asked for more time to file a response in front of the commission’s five-member bench, which was led by the Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja.
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He said that Barrister Ali Zafar, the main lawyer for the PTI chairman, was in Lahore and he couldn’t talk to him about the case. He said that he would do what he could to give the answer at the next hearing.
The CEC said that since everything was written down, it shouldn’t take so long to send a response.
But the head of the PTI was given more time, and the hearing was pushed back to September 7.
Earlier this month, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, sent a letter to the ECP asking that Mr. Khan be removed from office because of the Toshakhana case. In the reference, it was said that Mr. Khan didn’t list the gifts he got from Toshakhana or the amount he got from selling those gifts.
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Earlier in April, the former prime minister talked to the media informally about the Toshakhana scandal. He said that those things were given to him as gifts and that it was up to him whether or not to keep them.
