Imran used funds of Jewish,Indian lobbies to attack parliament: Pervaiz

ISLAMABAD: Labelling the PTI Chairman Imran Khan as an agent of Pakistan’s enemies, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Thursday alleged that Imran had received funds from ‘the Jewish and Hindu lobbies’ to attack parliament.
The minister said under the law, no political party could raise funds from abroad or from foreigners. He said the PTI raised funds from foreign firms whose owners were Jews, Hindus and Sikhs.
Speaking to a media conference here ahead of the by-election in NA-122, the minister went on to challenge Imran to declare on oath that he had not received funds from abroad. He asked Imran to take him to a court of law if what he said was wrong and that he was not an agent of Pakistan’s enemies. He showed some documents to the media to explain his contention that the PTI chief had grossly misused party funds.
The minister alleged that Imran was a thief, a corrupt person, a traitor and an agent of the enemies of Pakistan, who used funds to try and topple an elected government last year by staging a sit-in and to sabotage the visit of the Chinese president to Pakistan.
He wondered how the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in disregard to election laws allowed the PTI to take part in the elections, when it had to show from where it had received funds. The minister insisted that under the Political Parties Order, all parties are required to submit their accounts including sources of their funds before allotment of election symbols to them by the Election Commission. He said a founding member of the PTI, Akbar S Babar, brought to the notice of the Election Commission that funds were raised for the party in the United States. These funds were used for sit-ins, protests and destabilisation of the elected government in Pakistan.
The minister asked the Election Commission as to why it did not take notice of the petition of Akbar Babar filed in November last year and how it proceeded to allot the party symbol to the PTI without submission of accounts and sources of funding.