- Dr Fazal says Imran cannot escape accountability for misdeeds
- ‘Imran must present himself before ECP, ATC to submit replies’
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had failed to provide money trail for purchasing property.
“Imran Khan should stop misleading the nation and shouting on others, and present his own money trail before the Supreme Court,” Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CAAD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said while addressing a press conference here along with MNA Daniyal Aziz.
Dr Tariq Fazal said that the money trail, which Imran Khan had submitted to the Supreme Court, was not authentic as there was no mention of any proper source of his income in the documents. He said that he (Imran) had also not provided complete details to the Supreme Court about his offshore company – the Niazi Services Limited.
He said that Imran could not escape accountability for irregularities in his personal property documents. “His (Imran) assets were beyond his means,” he said, adding that one of Imran’s lawyers had admitted tax evasion in the case of the Niazi Service while another one conceded about his getting party funding from abroad.
In his tweets, Imran Khan had thanked the Indian nationals and the Jewish lobby for funding to his party, the minister said. He said that those talking of ‘moral’ obligation must keep in mind that Imran Khan had no moral courage to present himself before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Anti-Terrorist Court for submitting replies to their queries.
He said that Imran had totally failed to prove an actual source of his income. He questioned as to how Imran was morally justified to level allegations against the government while avoiding to present himself before the courts. On the occasion, Daniyal Aziz said that the people could not be misled any more as they were aware of the ones, who believed in accountability, and the others, who had been escaping from the courts of law.
Despite constitutional immunity, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had taken a historical step by presenting three generations of his family for accountability, he said, adding that Imran had been continuously raising hue and cry, and levelling allegations against the prime minister, but he could not present a single proof against him.
He said that neither in the Joint Investigation Team’s report nor during the hearing of the Panama Papers case by the Supreme Court, a single allegation of corruption or misuse of authority was proved against the prime minister. Imran, who was in the habit of shouting and abusing others, had distorted facts about his own earning sources, he pointed out.
He advised Imran to stop doing politics of allegations and using abusive language against respectable politicians. He said that the PTI chairman was in fact afraid of the PML-N’s growing popularity. The government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had made considerable progress in all the fields and Imran could not stop it by telling lies.
He expressed the confidence that Nawaz Sharif would emerge unscathed from the Panama Papers case. To a question, Dr Fazal condemned the incident of misbehavior with journalists at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and assured that an inquiry would be conducted against those involved in it.
Minister for Interior Affairs Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had already taken notice of the incident and sought a report from FIA high-ups. He said the present government believed in freedom of expression and considered any attack on media as an attack on itself.