ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Syed Shibli Faraz has said leaders of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are running away from presenting the record in foreign funding cases pending in the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Talking to media along with Parliamentary Secretary Railways Farrukh Habib, the minister said that the accounts of both the political parties were used for money laundering. “The scrutiny committee of the Election Commission is seeking records from the PML-N and the PPP,” he added.
Shibli Faraz further said, “PTI is not involved in any kind of accepting funding from prohibited entities like foreign governments or multinational companies”. He said PPP and PML-N have been using party funding for money laundering as well, he alleged.
He said PTI instead of accepting funds from mafias, had sought cooperation from its workers and sympathizers, who deposited small amounts ranging from ten to few hundred dollars. The minister said PTI has given complete detail of all its accounts to the ECP.
On this occasion, Farrukh Habib said ECP’s scrutiny committee, auditing accounts of PML-N and the PPP, has issued three different notices urging them to submit detail of their accounts. however, “None of them is ready to comply with commission’s instructions,” he added.
Farrukh said PML-N is registered as a private limited company in the UK and the United States. As to how a political party can be registered as a private limited company in foreign countries, he questioned.
Similarly, PPP’s leaders have been receiving funding from foreign companies in the US. He said, “ECP is asking PPP and PML-N to submit its foreign accounts’ record but to no avail”.
