ECP urged to make records of PTI's foreign funding public
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb. PHOTO:PID/FILE
Secretary Information Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Marriyum Aurangzeb has demanded making all records of the foreign funding case public and broadcast the proceedings live after the "damning revelations" made in the report of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Earlier this month, the scrutiny committee of the election organising authority unearthed that the PTI had concealed several accounts and around Rs310 million between 2008 and 2013 from the electoral body.
In a statement, Marriyum demanded that all documents, including those unearthed by the State Bank of Pakistan, should be made public as per the orders of the ECP.
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"The huge sums of money that [PM] Imran Khan took through private accounts of his employees were also kept a secret," she added.
The PML-N spokesperson said that the details of the premier's "accounts in foreign banks including the UK, US, Australia, Finland are yet to be exposed.
She termed the turning of "charity money for Shaukat Khanum into a political fund another "undeniable proof of Imran Khan's fraud and forgery".
She added: "The listing of the hospital's donors as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's donors in the ECP report is a dreadful disclosure."
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The former information minister claimed that 35 per cent of donors that didn’t provide funds to the PTI were fraudulently included in the list of party funding in the context of foreign funding.
For the same reason, she added, about eight volumes in the case were being hidden. “Imran is guilty of money-laundering and using charity money for political purposes," Marriyum said and urged the ECP to carry out the hearing into the case on a daily basis.
On Monday, the government urged the chief justices of the country to consider holding corruption trials of the Sharif family on daily basis and broadcast them in order to acquaint the people with the details of the evidence so as to be able to make up their minds.