IMRAN KHAN’S PARTY TO FILE CASE ON SHARIF LINKS TO OSAMA

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party plans to highlight the role of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly taking money from Osama bin Laden, the party's spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said that the party will file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking implementation on the Asghar Khan case verdict and it would also approach the court against the PM for allegedly taking money from al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the name of jihad.

PTI claims that the money taken from bin Laden was also utilised in 1989 to conspire against the Benazir Bhutto’s government.

Chaudhry said he would file within this week a petition in the Supreme Court seeking admission of the case against Prime Minister Sharif for “taking funds from a foreign individual to destabilise and conspire against democracy in Pakistan”.

The spokesman said that the party possesses no evidence to substantiate its case before the court, except for some interviews and excerpts from a book titled Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-eAman.

The book was written by Shamama Khalid, wife of a former Inter-Services Intelligence spy Khalid Khawaja, who was murdered in 2010 by the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan.

The book claims that Sharif took money, amounting to Rs1.5 billion, from Bin Ladin to promote Jihad in Indian Kashmir and Afghanistan.

Later an amount of Rs 270 million from this fund was utilised to support a no-confidence move against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 1989.

Last week, the PTI announced it would file a petition demanding implementation on a 2012 verdict in a case that determined Sharif had received money from an intelligence agency.