Govt trying to block Sharifs’ accountability, says Imran
lahore — Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said the Sharif family is being held accountable for the very first time but the government machinery is trying to create an impression that it has been subjected to accountability time and again, reports Dawn online.
“The government is employing different tactics to block the process of accountability of the Sharif family,” he alleged while talking to media personnel at the airport here on Saturday. He said the nation was waiting for the outcome of the joint investigation team’s inquiry (into money laundering allegations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his family).
“Threats are never hurled in democracies but it is done by mafias,” Khan said and added that a Supreme Court judge ‘has rightly stated that the Pakistan Muslim League-N has turned into a mafia’.
He said the time had changed and the PML-N would no more be able to attack the Supreme Court as it did in 1997.
“If the Sharif family has not done anything wrong, why Nawaz Sharif ’s sons and daughter are giving contradictory statements,” he said. He alleged that some $10 billion was being sent abroad from Pakistan through money laundering every year. On the contrary, the PTI chairman said, he had transferred all his wealth to the country from abroad through the banking system.
He said Pakistan was running its affairs with the help of $20 billion being sent by overseas Pakistanis.
The PTI chief warned the Sharif family against spreading fear.