ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has done corruption in the name of business.
He added the premier was given five chances to tell the truth and come clean in front of the people of the country. “He was given five chances to tell the truth to the people, starting with the first hearing in the Supreme Court and the last chance being the JIT.”
The PTI chief also referred to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as the “biggest conman of Pakistan”. Reiterating his call for the premier’s resignation, Kaptaan alleged that the business entities of the Sharifs have served as a front for money laundering. The PTI chief said Nawaz was given ample chances to prove the money trail, more so after the Sharifs had accepted the properties in question as theirs.
“The JIT was formed by the Supreme Court so Nawaz Sharif could answer the questions he could not answer in court,” added the PTI chief.
The skipper questioned how the assets of the Sharif family increased year after year as the business entities they owned were continuously were in the red. He said development schemes initiated during Nawaz’s tenure were meant to siphon of funds from those projects through front companies.
Published in Daily Times, July 20th , 2017.
