Nawaz Sharif Wants Reference Filed Against PTI In SC Within 48 Hours.

PML-N supremo has advised the coalition government to file a reference against the PTI in the Supreme Court within 48 hours, sources revealed on Tuesday.

Nawaz had called for filing the reference while speaking during a meeting of the coalition government's partners held at the Prime Minister's House with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair.

Party officials privy to the meeting shared that Nawaz stressed 'providing no concession to those who create instability on the agenda of anti-national elements', adding that former prime minister Imran Khan was directly involved in the rollback of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and 'selling of Kashmir'.

On the other hand, Qaumi Watan Party chief Aftab Sherpao said that the coalition government has to deliver now and control inflation.

The meeting also decided that all the coalition parties will hold rallies against the PTI across the country.

As per the plan, MQM will lead rallies in Karachi and PPP in Hyderabad and Sukkur, JUI-F in Peshawar, PkMAP and BNP-Mengal in Quetta, and PML-N in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The PML-N supremo was asking the coalition government to file a reference against PTI in the Supreme Court on the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision in the prohibited funding case.

ECP, in a unanimous verdict on Tuesday, said it has found that the PTI received prohibited funding.

The case was earlier referred to as the 'foreign funding' case, but later the election commission accepted the PTI's plea to refer to it as the 'prohibited funding' case.

The commission found that donations were taken from America, Australia, Canada and the UAE.

PTI received funds from 34 individuals and...

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