Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday put forward 11 questions for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, challenging him to answer the questions live on TV. Addressing Nawaz, Imran challenged the PML-N chief to “come in front of the public and answer my questions like I am answering now”. In response to Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan’s allegations that Imran had not paid any taxes, Imran put forward tax returns for the year 1981-82, saying he paid tax worth Rs 36,000 that year.
“Yousuf Islam is my tax agent and all information about my taxes is available with him. Anyone can contact him for details,” Imran said. The PTI chief said he bought land worth £40 million after selling his London flat in 2003 for around £70 million. “All my assets have been declared and they will also go up on my website. All of my properties are in my name, they are not in anyone else’s name.”He said he earned the remaining money during the World Cup in India. “In every World Cup, they invite me for commentary and match analysis and they pay me for it. I am presenting to you the contract of the game plan. The registered company will tell you how much I earned through it.”
1
Raymond Baker, an international renowned author, wrote in his book that Nawaz Sharif did corruption worth $417 million. The book says that Nawaz Sharif took a commission of $160 million from Daewoo for the motorway which was recently made. If Baker had made a false allegation, then why did you not initiate a case against him?
2
You bought four apartments in Mayfair worth more than Rs 1 billion. Now their value has gone up to Rs 4.5 billion. Where did you get the money from?
3
In 1994, you stated your income as Rs 150,000 and you gave a tax of
Rs 14,000. If this is your income, then how did you buy a property
in Mayfair?
4
Your whole family has properties in London. You want to do government in Pakistan but your children’s properties are lying abroad. You hould own it like I owned it right now?
5
Ishaq Dar gave an affidavit saying that Nawaz Sharif did money laundering by opening a
fictitious account by the name of Qazi family in London. The BBC did a film on that too?
6
You took a loan worth Rs 6 billion from Pakistani banks and you defaulted. Did you return the loan?
7
You took a loan from Al Taufiq Bank worth $30 million and then you defaulted. They took you to court and attached your property. From where did you get the money to pay back those $30 million?
8
Where did the people’s tax money go? How much of the tax money was put into Raiwind?
9
You have 1,700 acres of land in Raiwind. Where did you get the money from to buy that land?
10
You planted a steel mill in Jeddah of $150m. Your tax return does not show that you have enough income to plant a mill.
11
You froze your foreign accounts in 1998, but tell us, how much money did you transfer abroad the night before?
Imran fires 11-question salvo at Nawaz
