*ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry onSaturday said his party’s government would make a strict policy againstmoney laundering and would seek cooperation from other countries to purgethe country of this menace*.

“Bringing back the money taken illegally abroad is in the best interest ofthe country,” he said while talking to media at Bani Gala in Islamabad.

He said PTI chief Imran Khan in meetings with ambassadors of differentcountries, including the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Japan andIran, had sought help in bringing back the money that had been launderedinto their respective countries.

“The Avenfield money also belongs to Pakistanis and the government is boundto bring it back.”

Giving total numbers of the PTI seats, Fawad said 26 independents of thePunjab Assembly and eight of the National Assembly had joined the PTImounting the tally of number of seats to 177 in the NA and 186 in thePunjab Assembly.

He vowed that the PTI would make the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa withtwo-third majority.

Clearing the air on “delay in taking oath for the government”, the PTIspokesperson said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would releaseofficial result of the general elections 2018 on August 7, then theindependents would be given three days’ time to choose between joining aparty or staying independent, then the ECP would release notification forthe reserved seats of women on August 11, so this meant that the parliamentwould be complete by August 11, so Imran would choose his cabinet ministersand chief ministers by then.

He said following the PTI chief’s offer for recounting to addressreservations of rivals, recounting was held for 48 seats and their resultsmade no significant difference.

“The elections were organised by such election commission which wasconstituted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan PeoplesParty,” he said.