KARACHI: Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety and Central Information Secretary of PPP-P Shazia Atta Marri on Thursday demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to announce the ‘long-delayed verdict in the prohibited foreign funding case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf soon.

The judgment of foreign and prohibited funding case against PTI should be accounted sooner as Imran Khan is challenging the writ of the state due to the prohibited foreign funding case, she said in a statement. Marri uttered that records had proven that PTI Chief Imran Khan had received seven and a half million US dollars transactions from different countries in the prohibited funding.

Marri said that the verdict in the PTI prohibited funding case had been delayed by the Election Commission of Pakistan for the last eight years and a criminal was being unjustly given a relief at the stake of national security. The PPP leader uttered that the PTI chief Imran Khan had hidden truth during elections and had been telling lies continuously, but no action had been taken against him.

While emphasizing the ECP, she said that the ECP should announce the verdict in the PTI foreign funding case for the sake of the national security, national interest and justice as soon as possible. “Any further delay in the PTI foreign funding case is tantamount to jeopardizing the national security,” she observed.

She further blamed that Finance Committee of PTI collected donations through their employees from the country and abroad and that crime was committed on the behest of Imran Khan and Arif Alvi. She stated that all illegal money in foreign funding case should be confiscated by the federal government while PTI leaders could not avoid without giving account of foreign funding case by raising noise and putting pressure on the institutions.