Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s call for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation over the Panama Papers revelations.
“No allegations were leveled against the prime minister in Panama Papers so why should he resign?”
Rashid said that the Sharif family has been running their businesses since 1936, adding that no allegations were leveled against the prime minister and his sons in the leaked document.
Responding to Imran Khan’s address to the nation, Rashid said there was nothing new in Imran Khan’s speech and that he has been repeating the same things for the past three years.
“In fact, Imran Khan should apologize to the nation for hatching conspiracies against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, which resulted in the postponement of the Chinese president’s visit to Pakistan; for inciting people to attack state buildings and for the Taliban jailbreak in Bannu,” Rashid said.
The minister said that Imran Khan should first seek an apology for his previous conspiracy of organising a sit-in in Islamabad, which inflicted loss of billions of rupees to national economy, before hatching a new conspiracy of another sit-in.
