Shibli Faraz asks opposition parties to submit record of their foreign funding to ECP.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senaotr Syed Shibli Faraz has asked opposition parties to submit record of their foreign funding to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) instead of pressurizing and intimidating state institutions.

Speaking at a joint news conference, along with Railways Parliamentary Secretary Farrukh Habib, in Islamabad on Sunday, Shibli Faraz said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has submitted record of donations it received from workers and sympathizers abroad to ECP's scrutiny committee. He said that record of 40,000 notarized and authenticated transactions undertaken through proper banking channels has been submitted to the ECP.

The Minister said that 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 ECP's scrutiny committee.

He said opposition parties under the platform of Pakistan Democratic Movement have become united to cover up their corruption they done in the past. He said the people of Pakistan have rejected the opposition's...

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