No one to be allowed undermining ‘Law & Constitution’: Marriyum Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD, July 24 (SABAH): Responding to a tweet of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday, she said Imran Khan is trying to seek NRO in foreign funding case by creating chaos in the country.

The minister also urged the Supreme Court to form a full court for hearing of Punjab chief minister’s election case. She said the full court should simultaneously hear the Supreme Court Bar’s review petition, present petitions and other related cases.

It is worth mentioning here that the prohibited funding case was filed by the PTI’s founding member Akbar S Babar in November 2014, who had alleged serious financial irregularities in the party’s funding from Pakistan and abroad.

However, the party has denied any wrongdoing, maintaining that the funding is not from prohibited sources.

A report of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) scrutiny committee probing the party’s funds revealed on January 4 that PTI hid funds worth millions of rupees from the commission.

The report stated that the PTI provided “false information” regarding the party’s funding to the ECP. It said that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP’s) bank statement revealed that the party had received Rs1.64 billion in funding.

According to the report, the party did not disclose funding worth more than Rs310 million to the ECP. The scrutiny committee was formed in 2019 to audit foreign funding received by the PTI.