PML-N, PPP, JUI-F yet to submit details to ECP: PTI.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz said Sunday that the Pakistan People's Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl are reluctant to submit record of donations worth billions of rupees to the scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

The minister said the opposition parties' planned protest outside ECP was a crude attempt to mislead masses and intimidate the national institution.

Addressing a news conference along with Parliamentary Secretary for Railways Farrukh Habib, the minister said that members of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), unable to submit satisfactory replies to ECP Scrutiny Committee regarding foreign funding, were now trying to mislead masses by protest rally.

Shibli Faraz said that as the prime minister had already predicted that the opposition would get united against him and they gathered under one umbrella to protect their corruption. He said during their rule, both the PPP and PML-N paralysed the national institutions. He said both the parties had appointed their cronies in national institutions who used to protect their interests at the cost of national interest.

Shibli Faraz said Pakistan Democratic Movement was a matter of the past as the masses had rejected their narrative and refused to join their protest rallies which were meant to protect their looted money.

He said these parties have played all their cards. Shibli Faraz said PDM has faced defeat and embarrassment on all fronts. He said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has already submitted all the details related to the foreign funding it had received, to the Election Commission.

The minister said PTI has submitted 40,000 entries with addresses, telephone numbers and authenticated transactions. On the contrary, he said parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) have not been able to submit replies regarding foreign funding till date.

Shibli Faraz said PDM parties had tried to trap PTI but now they themselves were caught in their own web.

The Election Commission scrutiny committee repeatedly asked for the identity cards and addresses of the persons who donated for both the parties but they had failed to provide any satisfactory answer.

He said both the former ruling parties had acted as if the country was their personal property. He asked them to submit the details to the Election Commission so that public should know who was...