Bureau Report
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Maryam Aurangzeb has said that if the Panama case can be heard on daily basis then why PTI’s foreign funding case cannot be heard on day-to-day basis.
She said that there would be a grand gathering in front of the Election Commission (EC) on January 19 under the auspices of PDM, it would be better to decide the case before that.
Addressing a press conference along with local PML-N officials in Rawalpindi, she said that even in Quetta Imran Khan said that he would not give NRO, we demand that he be given psychiatric treatment.
Maryam Aurangzeb said that Akbar S. Babar filed a foreign funding case in 2014 and so far 80 hearings have been held but the Election Commission has not decided the case. She said that why the Election Commission is not making a decision.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has also disclosed 23 foreign funding accounts of the PTI.
Talking about the worst power breakdown in the country, she said that these same incompetents delivered 25,000 megawatts to the people in summer and could not in winter. The PML-N spokesperson said that these incompetent, thieves and corrupt rulers said that the power crisis was Nawaz Sharif s fault. They blame the Sharif brothers but under their rule Pakistan was developing.
Earlier January 2020, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s decision of declaring Akbar S.
Babar a part of PTI and reverting the case regarding the party’s foreign funding back to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). A long-winding case filed by Babar and others regarding the scrutiny of sources of PTI’s foreign funding has been pending since 2014. The case had earlier been presented to the ECP. However, the PTI had petitioned the IHC, questioning the ECP’s jurisdiction in the matter.
In February 2017, the IHC had remanded back to the ECP for a fresh review of its jurisdiction. At the time, the court had also declared Akbar S Babar a part of PTI.
On May 8 of the same year, a full bench of the ECP had once again declared its complete jurisdiction over the matter and stated that the PTI had failed to produce any evidence that the petitioner had been expelled from the party and hence lost the right to question the PTI’s accounts.
