After ECP report, Shahbaz stated, ‘No thief might be Prime Minister’

Leader of the Opposition within the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif stated on Friday that no thief might be the prime minister beneath Pakistan’s structure and its legal guidelines.

In an announcement shared by the PML-N on Twitter, days after a report by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the president of the PML-N stated, “Imran Niazi, who has been proven to be a thief and a liar under the law, has been arrested.” ought to resign.” The scrutiny committee stated that PTI hid funds value lakhs of rupees.

Shahbaz stated that the Constitution, the legislation and the political code of conduct dictate that PM Imran Khan ought to step down. “The ECP’s inquiry committee has said that Imran Niazi is neither honest nor trustworthy,” he stated.

‘If the legislation might be utilized to Nawaz then why not Imran?’

“A person who hides facts, steals and lies, cannot hold a constitutional, government or political office,” the PML-N president stated.

It is pertinent to say right here that after the report surfaced within the media earlier this week, PTI claimed that it was clear and that it has not hidden something from the ECP.

“If the law can be applied to a popular leader like Nawaz Sharif, why not Imran Niazi,” Shahbaz requested in his assertion in the present day.

“If Panama Papers JIT can be formed against Nawaz Sharif, and monitored by honorable judges of Supreme Court, why can’t it be done for Imran Niazi?” He inquired additional.

‘Country with out PM’

He stated The nation is working “without a (real) prime minister”, and is being ruled beneath a “constitutional and legal void”.

,[Pakistan has] No chief of parliament,” he added: “Under the legislation and the structure, Imran Niazi can not resolve on the affairs of the nation.”

“After the ECP inquiry report, no matter choice is taken can’t be thought-about constitutional or authorized,” Shahbaz said.

‘There should be daily action’

The PML-N president demanded that an investigation be launched against PM Imran Khan and that his case be heard on a daily basis – like the one against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

He said that equal treatment under the Constitution and the law is a fundamental principle of the laws of Pakistan and should be followed.

“The ECP’s inquiry committee has charged Imran Niazi and his occasion beneath the legislation,” he said.

‘IMF deal, mini budget to be reviewed’

The Leader of the Opposition also demanded a review of the deal with the International Monetary Fund and the Supplementary Finance Bill, which the opposition dubbed a “mini-budget”.

‘Those named in foreign funding case should resign’

He called for all those named in the ECP’s report to resign and “immediately” legal action against the four PTI employees as well as all others involved in accepting foreign funding for the party.

‘Will talk to the opposition’

Shahbaz said he would “discuss to the opposition” about the “severe constitutional void” that the ECP’s findings have caused.

“All events and activists who consider within the Constitution and the legislation must play their half in bringing Pakistan out of this constitutional void,” he said.

‘Threat to Pakistan’

Shahbaz said further investigation is needed as to which other foreign entities donated to the party and the details of PTI’s international accounts should be brought to the fore.

“Those who accepted unlawful cash from non-state actors and corporations are a menace to Pakistan’s nuclear energy,” he said.

The Leader of the Opposition said that if such revelations had come to the fore in the western country, the Prime Minister would have resigned already.

Shahbaz said on page 92 of the report, “It is talked about that since 2009-13, PTI hid 53 financial institution accounts”, while disclosing “solely 12 financial institution accounts to the ECP”.

He said that from the information given by the State Bank of Pakistan to the ECP, it has been learned that PTI has a total of 65 accounts.

‘Shocking facts’

A day earlier, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz slammed the PTI-led government for receiving foreign funds and said that PM Imran Khan has to be accountable to the people for his “incorrect deeds”.

Speaking during a press conference after the PML-N meeting in Lahore, Maryam said that PTI resorted to “mis-declaration” of funds “on the directions of PM Imran Khan”.

Making a similar demand, Maryam said: “Just as a JIT (Joint Investigation Team) was constituted in opposition to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, an analogous JIT ought to be constituted to probe PTI.”

“All accounts owned by PTI ought to be publicly declared,” she said.

PM welcomes ECP report

However, on Wednesday, the day after the report surfaced, PM Imran Khan welcomed it and said that this process should not stop here and the accounts of more parties should be investigated.

“The extra our accounts are scrutinized, the extra factual readability will emerge for the nation as to how PTI is the one political occasion which has a correct donor base primarily based on correct political fundraising,” the Prime Minister said.

The prime minister said he was looking forward to seeing similar ECP probe reports on funding of two other major political parties – PPP and PML-N.

“This will enable the nation to see the distinction between the correct [political] Fundraising and extortion of funds from crony capitalists and vested pursuits in return for favors at the price of the nation,” he stated.

Report

The report of the inquiry committee exposes the contradictions within the particulars and precise information supplied by PTI to the ECP.

According to information supplied to the committee by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), PTI has 26 financial institution accounts.

The report stated that from 2008 to 2013, PTI disclosed funds of Rs 1.33 billion to the ECP, whereas the precise quantity in a report by SBP was Rs 1.64 billion.

It stated that PTI didn’t disclose the main points of the three banks within the paperwork supplied to the ECP.

It stated that round 1,414 corporations in Pakistan, 47 overseas corporations and 119 potential corporations supplied funds to PTI.

The report stated that PTI acquired $2.3448 million in funds from the US, however the investigative committee couldn’t achieve entry to the occasion’s US financial institution accounts.

Contributors to those funds had been 4,755 Pakistani, 41 non-Pakistani and 230 overseas corporations.