Nawaz wonders over delay in PTI funding case.

KARACHI -- Comparing and contrasting his case leading to his ouster in 2017 with that of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) foreign funding case, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has questioned why no action has been taken against the ruling PTI for several years even when people have been protesting against 'injustice'.

In a video message posted on Saturday on his Twitter account days after the PTI's claim that the agents managing the two US companies registered on Imran Khan's orders were responsible for any illegal fund collection for the party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo appealed to men and women to join the opposition's rally as the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would protest in front of the Islamabad office of the Election Commission of Pakistan on Jan 19 (tomorrow).

The deposed premier, who has been staying in London for more than a year on medical grounds after being convicted by a court, questioned why the ECP was not taking action when the evidence was clear in the PTI's foreign funding case.

He remarked that people were protesting against the ECP's 'negligence' in fulfilling its constitutional duties as Prime Minister Imran Khan was allegedly using delaying tactics and ignoring the ECP directions.

Urges people to join PDM protest outside ECP office tomorrow

The PML-N supreme leader recalled the developments leading to his ouster and highlighted the alleged differences in the way he had been treated and how the foreign funding case was being treated. He particularly mentioAned the 'haste' in which matters proceeded to oust him. He said a joint investigation team (JIT) incAluding Military Intelligence and Inter-Services Intelligence officials was constituted and ordAered to file a report within 60 days. 'Then the haste with which the verdict was issued in the PanAama case, and a prime minister was dismissed on the basis of an Iqama. You remember this, right?' He said the accountability court was directed to issue a decision in six months and the tenure of judge Mohammad Bashir, who convicted the Sharif family in Avenfield properties references, was also extended.

'But this is one side of the picture. Let's look...