Committee in foreign funding case scrutinises record.

ISLAMABAD -- The Scrutiny Committee in foreign finding case against the ruling party on Thursday once again scrutinized the PTI record of two Limited Liability Companies registered in the U.S. was scrutinized.

Sources within the committee revealed that the petitioner's lawyer Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah assisted by Badar Iqbal Chaudhry objected to the PTI record and demanded that official record of two companies registered on the instructions of PTI Chairman Imran Khan should be scrutinised.

The Akbar S Baber's petitioner during the meeting said that they were being asked to scrutinize fake documents and are participating in the process in protest.

Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah told the Committee that it should follow the ECP Order of August 27, 2020 to authenticate each and every evidence before it. He said the Committee should not expect us to rubber stamp fake and forged PTI documents.

The Committee was asked to either accept or reject official evidence to bring some credibility into the Scrutiny.

The Committee is expected to meet again on January 20, 2021 to deliberate on the authenticity issue and communicate its order before proceeding further.

On the other hand the sources within ECP told The Nation that the PTI Party Chief Organizer Saifullah Nyazee had called on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Sikandar Sultan...