PTI files foreign funding case against JUI-F
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Requests ECP to summon Maulana Fazl and inquire about funding
Petition includes transcript of TV interview of former JUI-F leader admitting to the party taking foreign funds
ISLAMABAD: The PTI filed a foreign funding case against Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in the Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday.
An application for it was submitted to the ECP by PTI MNA Farrukh Habib. It says former JUI-F senior leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed admitted in an interview that JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and other party leaders frequently visited Libya and Iraq and received funding from there.
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The Pakistan Democracy Movement, an amalgam of 11 opposition parties in the country, has launched a nationwide agitation against the foreign funding case that was filed six years ago against the PTI leadership.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan (File Image)
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is under immense pressure to resign from his post by January 31, alleged the country s top opposition party Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N).
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, while speaking to reporters in Rawalpindi, said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is in the dock over the 2014 foreign funding case.
ECP suspends 154 lawmakers over failure to submit assets, liabilities details
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Three senators and 48 MNAs lose memberships
103 provincial assembly members suspended
ECP to reinstate lawmakers once they submit assets and liabilities statement
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday suspended memberships of 154 federal and provincial lawmakers over failure to submit assets and liabilities statements.
The commission has suspended memberships of three senators namely Musadik Masood Malik, Kamran Michael, and Shamim Afridi.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Ali Zaidi, Amir Liaquat Hussain, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Mohsin Dawar, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui are also included among the 48 members suspended from the National Assembly.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who did not take an oath, is among 52 lawmakers suspended in Punjab, while Nasir Hussain Shah Rizvi and 18 others have been debarred from the Sindh Assembly.