Pakistan EC asked to probe PTI international funding case ...

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 leading Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan

Dissident founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Akbar S Babar, who filed the international funding case towards his party, has filed a further utility traumatic the Election fee of Pakistan (ECP) to examine into the matter itself as a substitute of the scrutiny committee constituted for this aim.

The building comes three days after the ECP determined to hear the 5-12 months-old foreign funding case towards Imran Khan's party on a daily basis.

In his six-web page utility to the ECP on Saturday, Babar accused the PTI of "delaying the complaints being performed by way of the scrutiny committee", The specific Tribune mentioned.

He requested the ECP to take possession of the scrutiny committee's information of the PTI bank bills and probe into the case itself.

Babar claimed that the PTI had now not presented "authentic facts" to the scrutiny committee throughout their forty two meetings. He added that the ECP had already held seven hearings on the count and sixteen directives of the committee had been left out by using Khan's birthday celebration.

Babar had filed the foreign funding case in November 2014, alleging that virtually $3 million in illegal foreign money have been got through two offshore corporations and that money became sent through "hundi" channels from the core East to the money owed of "PTI employees".

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