PDM's protest outside ECP is an attempt to threaten national institution: Shibli.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz on Sunday termed the Pakistan Democratic Movement's (PDM) protest outside Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office an attempt to threaten national institution.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Sunday, he said that the opposition's anti-government movement has become a part of the past.

The minister said that they [opposition] have played all their cards but got nothing but shame and now the PDM is going to play their last card.

The PDM's protest outside the ECP office is to pressurize a national institution, adding that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said he would appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) with his entire party when he received notice from the anti-graft watchdog. 'These people [opposition] want to threaten the national institutions by bringing group of people,' he said.

"Opposition parties under the platform of Pakistan Democratic Movement have united to cover up their corruption they done in the past," he said and added the people of Pakistan have rejected the opposition s narrative.

The federal minister further added that now these parties are coming to stage a protest demonstration outside ECP just to intimidate and pressurize institutions. He urged PDM to submit record of their foreign funding instead of misleading the people through demonstrations.

He said that the ruling PTI has submitted record of donations it received from workers and sympathizers abroad to ECP s scrutiny committee. He...