ECP urged to decide PTI funding case without delay

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The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to decide the seven-year-old foreign funding case of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) without any further delay when it has all the related evidence.

“The case related to the funding of the PTI from the banned sources is a tale of historic fraud,” said PPP information secretary and member of the National Assembly Shazia Marri on Saturday.

She said the ECP possessed all the proofs and, therefore, it should decide the case as early as possible, according to a statement issued by the PPP media office.

Ms Marri alleged that the PTI government was making every effort to block the announcement of the ECP verdict in the foreign funding case. She alleged Prime Minister Imran Khan had collected funds for his cancer hospital through cheques in the name of the PTI from foreign banned sources.

PPP leader calls the funding from banned sources ‘a tale of historic fraud’

The PPP leader said the prime minister who raised the slogan of accountability wanted to evade his own accountability.

One of the founding members of the PTI and a party dissident, Akbar S. Babar, had filed the foreign funding case against the PTI leadership, including its chairman Imran Khan and the then secretary general Dr Arif Alvi, in November 2014.

In his petition before the ECP, Mr Babar who was once known as a close confidant of Mr Khan had alleged that the PTI leaders were involved in illegal funds collection, corruption, money laundering, and misappropriation of party funds under the political party’s funding laws.

For over a year, case proceedings remained pending before the ECP, because the PTI filed a writ petition in October 2015 before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in an attempt to restrain the ECP scrutiny of its accounts. In February 2017, the IHC remanded the case back to the ECP for a fresh review of its jurisdiction.

Later, the PTI in a tit-for-tat move also filed similar cases against the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and asked the ECP to scrutinise the accounts of all the registered political parties on the same terms of reference which were being followed in the PTI foreign funding case.

After the last hearing of the case on Oct 11, Minister of State for Information Farrukh Habib, who is a petitioner in the cases against the opposition parties, claimed that the ECP had allowed the PTI to peruse documents related to foreign funding cases against the PML-N and the PPP.

The minister alleged that the PML-N had concealed seven accounts while the PPP had hidden 12 accounts from the ECP.

Next day, however, PPP’s finance secretary Senator Saleem Mandviwala not only refuted the minister’s claim but also asked the ECP to take notice of the “false and incorrect statement” made by the state minister.

Mr Mandviwala termed the minister’s statement an attempt to influence outcome of the foreign funding case being heard by the ECP against the country’s three major political parties.

ECP urged to decide PTI funding case without delay

“The case related to the funding of the PTI from banned sources is a tale of historic fraud," says PPP leader Shazia Marri.

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Najam Sethi sounding the alarm bells!

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Actually the case against Plmn is much stronger than pti. The amounts in question is also much higher.


PML-N fails to provide evidence of donations to ECP


ISLAMABAD:
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has failed to account for the funds of more than Rs450 million it received in the form of donations.

An in-camera meeting of the scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Deputy Director Law to review the financial accounts of the PML-N.

Raja Riaz and Advocate Jahangir Jadoon appeared before the committee on behalf of the PML-N, while the financial experts were deputed by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Najam ul-Saqib and Jamal Abdul Nasser, perused the accounts of the opposition party.

However, sources said that PML-N was unable to provide evidence of party funds received as donations as unconfirmed transactions of millions of rupees in the party’s accounts have come to light.

During the hearing, the ruling party contended that more than Rs450 millions of PML-N party funds were unverified, demanding of the opposition party to furnish bank statements and cross-checks before the panel.

Read More: Scrutiny panel holds in-camera meeting in PML-N’s funding case

Moreover, PML-N has yet to provide bank statements of five other party accounts to the ECP’s panel, sources added.

As per the order of the electoral supervisor, the perusal of PML-N’s accounts will continue for eight days.

Similarly, in the second phase, the panel will begin the proceedings for the accounts of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

A two-member bench of the commission earlier this month accepted the application filed by the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib seeking access to the accounts of the two major opposition parties at a hearing of the foreign funding case.

Farrukh has alleged that PML-N had concealed seven accounts while the PPP had hidden 12 accounts from the ECP. He requested the commission to give the ruling party access to the financial accounts of both parties for a ‘meaningful audit’.

PML-N fails to provide evidence of donations to ECP | The Express Tribune

PTI questions ‘unverified’ Rs450 million in rival party’s transactions

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The truth is nothing will come out of it against any party. Just the galore. Just the media circus.