Staff Reporter
Islamabad
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Thursday that the party, under the umbrella of the 11-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), would take out rallies from different areas of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on 19 January. She promised that it would merge into one big rally before heading towards the office of the Election Commission of Pakistan in the capital.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad along with other party leaders, she said the rally was being organised to “get a decision from the ECP that it is not giving since 2014”. She was referring to a foreign funding case against the PTI, which was filed in Nov 2014 by Akbar S. Babar, a founding member of the ruling party.
“The protest that the PDM is going to do on Jan 19 [is being done] to take the decision that has already been made today when the PTI has accepted that illegal funding has come through 23 foreign-funded accounts, [that] illegal funding could have been done through agents. [The PTI] accepted that money was gotten illegally through 23 foreign funded accounts that were not declared accounts and that money was [deposited] in PTI accounts [through cheques].
“Signs of President [Dr Arif Alvi], Sindh Governor [Imran Ismail] and Imran Khan sahib himself [along with] other PTI leaders are present on those cheques,” she claimed.
In the presser, Aurangzeb said that the PTI has “accepted the decision that ECP is not giving since 2014” and the PDM workers would go to the commission’s office on Jan 19 to take that decision from it. “The case was registered in 2014. What reason does the ECP have [to delay a verdict] when the PTI has accepted that agents did illegal funding? They should be ready to write the judgement,” she further said.
The PML-N spokesperson said that all routes of the rally had been decided and all preparations had been completed. “[One] rally will start in Islamabad and head towards the ECP office. The Pindi rally will start from Nawaz Sharif Park and will go to the commission through Club Road,” she said.
