Toshakhana reference case

Toshakhana reference case
Court	Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)
Decided	21 October 2022
Ruling
Imran Khan disqualified from holding office as a member of Pakistan's National Assembly; Election Commission of Pakistan ordered to initiate legal proceedings against Khan
Court membership
Judge sitting	Sikandar Sultan Raja

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The Toshakhana reference case was a landmark decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that disqualified Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan, from holding public office for five years.

The case was filed in August 2022 by members of the Pakistan Democratic Movement for Khan's failure to report the details of Toshakhana gifts in declarations of annual assets submitted to the ECP. The ECP initiated the inquiry and announced its final verdict on 21 October 2022, ruling that Khan had made false statements and inaccurate declarations regarding his assets and liabilities for the year 2020-21 in the reference under Article 63(1)(p) of the Constitution. This disqualified Khan from public office for five years. It also ordered the reference to be sent to the trial court for the commencement of criminal proceedings. Khan challenged this verdict, which came despite him not submitting any nomination papers for an election, arguing that he obtained the gifts legally from the Toshakhana and used the proceeds from their sale for public investment and development works. International observers such as the United Nations dubbed detention and prosecution in the Toshakhana case as politically motivated and without legal basis with the motives to exclude him from competing in the political arena.^[1]