FIA to probe foreign funding received by PTI, govt to send declaration to Supreme Court

Islamabad (HRNW) The federal cabinet has decided to hand over the investigation of prohibited funding received by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) while the government will send a declaration against the political party to the Supreme Court.

The meeting of the federal cabinet in Islamabad was chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

FIA will be able to hire services of other institutions for probing into prohibited funding received by Imran Khan’s party.

Addressing the media after the cabinet meeting, Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the government will take action against the PTI leadership under articles of Political Parties Order (PPO) 2002 and Election Act 2017.

She said PTI took 51 adjournments during the proceedings of the prohibited funding case during eight years.

The minister said that the law minister briefed the federal cabinet on the matter and how the government was bound to act in accordance with the law after PTI was declared a ‘foreign-aided’ party by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

She said that ex-PM Imran Khan submitted five false affidavits in the ECP.

A declaration will be sent to the Supreme Court against PTI which will be presented in the next cabinet meeting for approval, Aurangzeb added.

She said FIA will probe into money-laundering done through fake accounts which were opened in the name of four domestic workers of PTI Secretariat.

 

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