Imran Chides ECP Over 'Foreign Funding' During Telethon.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday chided the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) by saying that the electoral body must have seen the truth about 'foreign funding' during a telethon organized by his party for fundraising for flood victims in which Rs5 billion were pledged by donors including overseas Pakistanis.

Khan was referring to the recent ruling of the ECP in which it declared that the PTI received prohibited funding from 351 foreign companies and 34 foreign nationals. 'Now the Election Commission must have seen the truth about foreign funding in the telethon,' he said, adding that a drama was played there on the foreign funding case of PTI. Addressing a seminar organized by PTI on the state of the country's economy, the former prime minister said it was necessary to bring political stability to strengthen the economic situation. He also urged the need to work on an emergency basis to improve the country's ailing economy. 'At this time, our economy is facing major challenges.'

The PTI chief lamented that there had never been long-term planning to lift the country's economy or to conserve water or protect the environment. He underlined that the next government would have to take tough decisions in the given circumstances. Taking a jibe at the ruling coalition, the ex-prime minister said that the 'imported government' had brought a tsunami of inflation in the country and it was least bothered for the welfare of the common man. 'There is a need to take tough decisions to improve the bad state of a country's economy.'

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