Says PTI should go through its bank statement to find facts but present its statements too
LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) UK’s President Zubair Gull has challenged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to go through the public record of PMLN’s dormant registered company in the UK and find any wrongdoing. Zubair Gull reacted after the PTI alleged on Wednesday that the PML-N was getting funds from foreign countries, including London, and had set up an account to raise funds. Zubair Gull said that the PTI had made allegations without making any research and deliberately tried to be dishonest and malicious. He said the PML-N (UK)was formalised in the summer of 2015 and a company limited (Company Registration No: 09781563) by guarantee and not for profit-making was set up to protect and formalise the PML-N (UK) party. “This is public knowledge available from Companies House. Along with this in the public domain is the fact that we are a non-profit organisation. As part of the registration process a bank account was opened with Lloyds Bank (Sort Code: 309451, Account: 48646568) using a total sum of £5. A nominal sum of one pence was transacted to make the account live. Since the company’s inception and to date no transaction has taken place and this can be seen from the Companies House and the Lloyds Bank statement. Thismeans nomoney has gone into the account or left the account. A total of £4.99 was in the account when it was opened and remains the substantive sumto date.” Gull explained that the trading address, used to set up company, is a showroom on Romford Road in East London used as the PML-N office, donated by a party activist Mr Fazal-ur- Rahman who also uses the majority of the same building and trading address for his personal business Wardag Corporation Limited. “This business has nothing to do with the PML-N (UK). The PTI had made allegations against us because we are asking themto showbank statements in which foreign funds have been received and they are refusing to do so.” Fazal-ur-Rahman, who runs Wardag Corporation Limited, said he was shocked when he heard PTI spokesman suggesting that it could be “Maulana Fazlur Rehman” using this address for “money laundering”. He clarified: “I personally own the property and business located at this address. This business has nothing to do with the PML-N (UK). As a loyal party worker I have for a number of years donated the front office on the main road to PMLN (UK) for its meetings and postal correspondence and for it to be used as a registered address. I am seeking legal advice against the PTI for maligning my good name and bringing my business into disrepute.”