PTI should avoid double standards: Kh Asif
PML-N SAYS THE PARTY SHOULD LOOK INTO ITS FAILURES IN KP
Taking exception to the statements made by Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and others on Monday, Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif stated that PTI leader should stop misleading the nation and show money trail of his party’s foreign funding.
Talking to media outside the Supreme Court, the minister said that Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had started hearing a case on embezzlement in PTI’s party funds and issued a contempt of court notice to Imran Khan.
He said that Imran Khan has to inform how he collected money in the name of donations and zakat.
The PTI leadership should avoid adopting double standard, he said.
He questioned, “Why did PTI’s chief fail to inform the commission about money trail of foreign funding?”
“As elected public representatives we are accountable to everyone and we consider it our responsibility to show all the proofs regarding money trail.”
‘FLAG BEARERS OF JUSTICE’
PML-N leader Ameer Mauqam said that despite heavy claims of change, the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has failed to address the sufferings of the people.
He said that they will accept the court’s decision in Panama Leaks case. However, the ‘flag bearers of justice’ should not misguide the nation and look at their own failures.
He added even medicines were not available for road accident patients.
He said that PTI and Jamat-eIslami always talked about corruption but both parties failed to control that issue in KP. He alleged that both the parties were actually involved in corruption.
NO PROOF IN THE CASE
Spokesman to Prime Minister Dr Musadiq Malik said the lawyers of PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have failed to prove a direct or indirect connection of the prime minister with the London apartments during three weeks of hearings in the Supreme Court.
Speaking at a press conference here along with Daniyal Aziz, he said the court repeatedly asked the lawyers of Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI to provide a single piece of evidence, but they failed to do so.
Supreme Court asked for evidence as newspaper clippings, excerpts from books and assumptions could not be admitted in court as a proof, he explained.
He said the reports of BBC and the German magazine supported the Sharif family’s viewpoint in the court.
According to the documents, Nescoll and Nielsen owned the flats till 2006, and later the ownership of the properties were transferred from Qatari family to Hussain Nawaz, he said.
There was nothing new in the documents mentioned in the report of the German magazine, he added.
Dr Musadiq said Maryam Nawaz was only the authorised agent and not the beneficial owner of the London flats and signed a trust deed with her brother Hussain Nawaz in early 2006.
On one of the documents, signatures of Maryam Nawaz were forged, he noted.
Daniyal Aziz said in a recent hearing Imran Khan apologised to Election Commission to save himself from contempt of court proceedings.
Imran Khan so far has not provided money trail for the foreign funds obtained by his party, he added.