PML-N, PPP ask PTI for proof of foreign funding allegations.

ISLAMABAD -- The opposiAtion Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PakisAtan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday challenged the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to produce evidence of its claim that they had received funding from abroad.

The counsel for the two parties appeared before the scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and argued that they had not received any foreign funds.

After the committee meeting, PML-N's counsel Jehangir Jadoon told Dawn that the party had already submitted details of its donors along with their CNIC numbers, stressing that all these funds had been collected locally.

He said the PML-N had also submitted its documents, including bank statements, and the ECP could verify them through the State Bank of Pakistan.

He claimed that the complainant, PTI MNA Farrukh Habib, while answering a question during the committee's meeting, said he had no proof against the PML-N.

The counsel said he asked the committee to wind up the proceedings in the absence of any proof of wrongdoing and expressed concern over the uncalled-for delay in taking the 'baseless' case to its logical conclusion.

Jadoon, however, noted that the committee was deliberately dragging the matter.

'Perhaps it wants to decide all the foreign funding cases, including the one against the PTI, together,' he remarked.

He said the committee had stated that it would give a new questionnaire, but it was yet be received.

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