RAWALPINDI, July 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA, Mohammad Hanif Abbasi, has urged the government to release all the funds announced during the election campaign in NA-56 constituency.

The MMA leader said Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and the Punjab chief minister, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, had visited the constituency during the by-elections electioneering campaign to muster support for a relative of the federal information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.