Corruption allegations against Imran Khan stood proven: Nawaz

LONDON, Dec 10, (SABAH): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and former prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said that the Daily Mail apology is proof of their innocence and that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan, senior party leader Barrister Mirza Shahzad Akbar and whole PTI should hang their heads in shame now.

While talking to media persons on Saturday, the PML-N quaid, who is in London since 2019, added that the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has already given a ‘clean chit’ to Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif after due diligence.

Nawaz Sharif added that the UK was not ruled by PML-N, PTI or any other Pakistani political party and it was a democratic state with a free and fair judicial system. “There cannot be a bigger proof of innocence than the court of such a country giving someone a clean chit,” Nawaz Sharif said.

The former PM added that Imran Khan and Shahzad Akbar should hang their heads in shame after Daily Mail’s apology. These people have disgraced the country and Pakistanis politicians overseas, he added.

He added that the statements by former judges Shoukat Aziz Siddiqui and Muhammad Arshad Malik, former CJP Saqib Nisar’s audio leak, and the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) overturning of the verdict against Maryam Nawaz Sharif were proofs of their innocence.

On the other hand, he added, corruption allegations against Imran Khan stood proven. “Everyone knows about the Toshakhana scandal,” he added. “A certified corrupt person is hurling corruption allegations at people who had been proven innocent in national and international courts,” Nawaz Sharif regretted.

The PML-N leader said he was forced to exile after a fake hijacking case was filed against him in the 90s, and the elected PM of 240 million people was disqualified for not taking payment of 10,000 riyals from his son.

Nawaz Sharif said until 2017, the country was progressing, and inflation was under control. “The PML-N government boosted the country’s economy and ended load-shedding in just three years,” he added. He added that it was them who made Pakistan an atomic power.

The PML-N supremo asked the PTI chief to name one project that he conceived and completed during his tenure. “PTI only made a ‘faulty’ metro in KPK, which is under NAB investigation.” He said that Imran Khan did not permit furthering NAB investigations into the Peshawar metro project.

The former prime minister said that a conspiracy was hatched to defame the political leaders of Pakistan and urged the people to ponder over deeds and corruption of the PTI leaders. Nawaz Sharif, while claiming that more evidence against Imran Khan in the Billion Tree project and Al-Qadir Trust case would surface, said corruption of more than Rs50 billion was committed in these projects while the poor masses were struggling to even get minimum wage of Rs20,000.