Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan demanded on Sunday that the general elections be held immediately and also that Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) be merged with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

“We have lost confidence in the incumbent Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP),” he told reporters.

“The Supreme Court should dissolve the ECP and reconstitute a new one for holding early elections,” he added.

“The ECP doesn’t have the right to issue contempt notices to anyone.”

The PTI chief said the new PM (Shahid Khaqan Abbasi), to justify continue holding his seat, should seek a fresh mandate from the masses.

He went on to demand that the names of deposed PM Nawaz Sharif, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and the National Accountability Bureau chief should be placed on the exit control list.

Talking about Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif’s iqama case, Khan said the minister would meet the same fate as Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified by the top court on July 28.

Earlier this month, the ECP had issued a bailable warrant for the arrest of Khan after he failed to personally appear before the polls supervisory body in a contempt case.

A show-cause notice for contempt, dated August 24, was issued on an application filed in January this year by Akbar S Babar – a former PTI leader and the main petitioner in an already pending case with regard to the PTI’s alleged funding by foreign sponsors.

However, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had suspended the bailable warrants of arrest issued by the ECP against the PTI chairman.

An IHC bench, comprising Justice Aamer Farooq, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, suspended the top electoral body’s order while directing counsel for the PTI Babar Awan to submit a reply to the show-cause notice duly signed by Khan before the ECP by September 25.