PTI taken prohibited funds,EC, Imram is a certified liar,PM Shehbaz

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received 'prohibited funds' from 34 foreign nationals and 351 companies based outside the country. The party was issued a show cause notice after the unanimous verdict — reserved in June earlier this year – by the three-member bench of the ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja. This Commission is constrained to hold that Mr Imran Khan failed to discharge his obligations as mandated under the Pakistani Statutes. The Chairman PTI has or successive five years (2008-2009 to 2012-2013) under review and examination has submitted Form-1 and signed a Certificate which is not consistent with [the] accounting information before us which has been gathered and complied on the basis of information obtained from Banks through [the] State Bank of Pakistan, said the judgement by the ECP. According to the Express Tribune report the ECP, in a unanimous verdict, found that donations were taken from the United States of America, Australia, Canada and the United Arab Emirates — amounting to billions of rupees.

Responding to the ECP's major decision, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the commission's verdict on PTI's prohibited funding case "charge sheets Imran for violating the Constitution".  Proven yet again that he is a certified liar. Nation should ponder over the implications of his politics funded by foreigners," he added.

ECP verdict on PTI foreign funding case chargesheets Imran Niazi for violating the Constitution, submitting false affidavits & accepting foreign money. Proven yet again that he is a certified liar. Nation should ponder over the implications of his politics funded by foreigners.

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) August 2, 2022

Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday said that the party will challenge the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP's) verdict in court, using political and legal means.  The PTI leader said that the party met all the criteria and submitted all the evidence to come clean. Former planning minister Asad Umar dared the commission to upload the account details of PTI on its website, including those of PML-N and PPP. Following the Election Commission of Pakistan’s verdict against the PTI in the prohibited funding case, the party on Tuesday urged overseas Pakistanis to continue funding it.