Imran on Indian companies’ payroll: Daniyal

— PML-N leader says JIT report as frivolous as PTI’s petition

Once again declaring the Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) report as a pack of lies, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Daniyal Aziz, on Wednesday, returned fire on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, accusing him of getting financial benefits from Indian companies.

“Why ‘demand’ on a report which has been declared by the JIT as incomplete and inconclusive. Our opponents should wait till Monday when we will postmortem this report in the Supreme Court (SC),” he said at a news conference.

Daniyal Aziz cited some portions of the report as an example to support his argument and said that when it would undergo the legal process it would also be declared as frivolous as Imran’s petition.

He said that the government had fulfilled its obligation for mutual legal assistance, but the companies abroad – whom the JIT had approached – gave nominal weight to the latter’s requests.

Daniyal questioned as to why the report was left inconclusive if the JIT had gathered all the required evidence. “Why is it an ongoing report and why was the 10th volume sealed?”

He also mentioned some findings of the JIT about the State Bank and the Gulf Steel and said that it could not find substantial evidence.

“The JIT tried to make a source report instead of submitting its findings based on concrete evidence,” he said, adding that At least Aitzaz Ahsan, Khursheed Shah and Jamat-e-Islami leader should have read the report properly.

He said that JIT used beautiful words when it needed to prove its calculations right, but where it needed to draw a conclusion, it left the matter ambiguous.

Daniyal said that the JIT report left many questions unanswered as it lacked verification of several facts, proving that it was an inconclusive, engineered and hollow report.

“The JIT report has been basing on ‘Possibility One, Possibility Two and Possibility Three.’ It spoiled the nation’s money and time, leaving the whole of the nation in pang,” he added.

The PML-N leader said that he could not state anything about a report which lacked essential evidence as it could not even prove that Mayfair flats were owned by the Sharif family even before 2006.

“The JIT report is just a trailer as the film has yet to be screened and the people will start viewing it from Monday. Even the documents received from Dubai were not duly attested by the authorities concerned, so those were not essential documents,” he added.

He said that PML-N had categorically stated that the Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif neither owned any offshore company nor was he a beneficiary of any such company.

“But, why Imran Khan is shying away from submitting party funds details to the Election Commission and money trail in the Supreme Court?” Daniyal questioned.

“We know the national interest and have been cooperating with JIT in the national interest. But, why nobody asks Imran Khan about wrapping up the Accountability Commission in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he said.

Daniyal also questioned as to why nobody was asking that from where he (Imran) had been getting money. “But no matter if nobody asks him, we are here to reveal. I say with authority that Imran Khan had been on the payroll of Indian companies and received money from them,” Daniyal said.

He said that Imran had been politicking during the last four years by making corruption as his popular slogan but failed to submit trail of the money received from Jemaima for buying the Bani Gala property.

He said that Nawaz Sharif was a popular national leader and could be won over with popular vote, not through the conspiracies and scripts. “We came into power with the people’s support, not through an NRO and will once again defeat those who are looking for a back door to come into power.”

“You (Imran Khan) cannot come into power through the JIT but by winning the masses support,” he stated.