The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday sent the alleged foreign funding case against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to an investigative committee for further probe.
The decision was taken on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI's) request while hearing the petition of the party pertaining to the alleged illegal foreign funding of PML-N. The ECP has already forwarded a similar case against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to the same probing body.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Raza Khan heard the petition against the PML-N and forwarded the case to the probing committee for further investigation and also directed the parties to appear before the body on July 31.
The PTI was represented by its lawyer Faisal Chaudhry while no one from the PML-N side appeared before the ECP. Talking to reporters, Faisal Chaudhry alleged that both the PML-N and PPP have filed misleading statements before the ECP in the alleged foreign funding case. He said that it is necessary to probe the sources of foreign funding of both the parties.
Meanwhile, Chairman PTI Imran Khan welcomed the ECP decision of holding a probe into foreign funding of the two parties as PTI had already gone through the same procedure.
"As a party, PTI has been making its foreign funding public before the ECP so we welcome belated ECP decision to send the PPP and PML-N foreign funding for audit probe before the committee. Already information is out on how the Sharifs used PML-N for money laundering and how the PPP got money from the Embassy in Washington DC," he tweeted.
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