ECP indicts Imran Khan in contempt case

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has indicted ex-premier Imran Khan and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry in a case pertaining to contempt of the electoral body and the chief election commissioner (CEC).

On Wednesday, the case was heard in-camera by a four-member bench of headed by Nisar Ahmed Durrani in Adiala Jail, where the former PTI leaders are currently incarcerated.

Further hearing of the case was adjourned till January 16.

PTI lawyer Intazar Hussain Panjutha said Imran was indicted in the absence of his lawyers. “No one has seen such a controversial election commission in the history of Pakistan,” he said.

Talking to the media outside Adiala Jail, Hiba Fawad Chaudhary, the former information minister’s wife, said both Fawad and Imran had been indicted by the ECP.

Quoting her husband, she said he argued before the ECP that there was a reference against one of the members of the bench hearing the case.

She also said that Fawad was indicted despite not having submitted his reply to a show-cause notice issued to him by the commission. She requested the ECP to allow her husband to respond to the show-cause notice before conducting further proceedings.

Source: DAWN