Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday announced he will declare his assets along with details of earnings and tax records. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club after Salim Jan joined PTI, Imran Khan said he was introducing a new trend in politics by declaring his asset details.
Salim Jan, late Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s grandson and late Khan Abdul Wali Khan’s nephew announced he would join the PTI, and handed over the details of his assets to the PTI chief. Imran said, “Within a week I will address a press conference in which I shall make my assets public.” Imran said after safeguarding President Zardari’s rule for three and a half years, it was the PTI’s growing popularity that compelled the PML-N to embark on its ‘Go Zardari Go’ campaign.
He also said he was open to anyone joining his party but would only offer tickets to those free of corruption, who had declared their assets and were ideologically committed. He said he met the ISI chief one and a half year ago and met the US ambassador at his residence six months ago but denied meeting both of them together. Separately, addressing a public gathering at Peshawar after PPP former provincial minister Iftikhar Khan Jhagra announced he was joining the PTI, Imran said the time for both Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif to return to the pavilion has come and the 25 December gathering at Karachi will seal their fate.
He said an air of change had started blowing across the country and the PTI tsunami shall come to Multan on Saturday (today) and Ghotki on Sunday after traveling across Lahore, Chakwal and Peshawar.
Imran to make assets public next week
