Swat, July 06(TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan while talking to the rally on Friday, he stated that “the powerful are being held accountable for the first time in Pakistan”
Imran said the children of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had given contradictory statements previously about owning apartments in London.
Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in prison and slapped a £8 million fine in the Avenfield properties reference on Friday while his daughter Maryam was sentenced to seven years with a £2 million fine.
Imran added that July 26 will see the beginning of a ‘new Pakistan’.
The PTI chief stated that Nawaz’s son had accepted ownership of the London properties on television.
Imran also lamented the lodging of several cases against him in a bid to silence his struggle in exposing the Sharif family’s corruption.
Claiming that Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party chief Asif Zardari destroyed state institutions, Imran said he joined politics to rid the country of corruption.
Earlier, speaking at a rally in Lower Dir before the Avenfield reference verdict was announced, Imran labelled corruption as the country’s biggest problem.
“Corruption was and remains Pakistan’s biggest [disease],” he addressed the public in Lower Dir, referring to the imminent verdict in Avenfield reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family.
“All of Pakistan is awaiting the verdict. I am waiting for the verdict. It is very important.
“These [corrupt rulers] stole the nation’s money and laundered it abroad. What they earn [during power], a common laborer cannot even earn in his lifetime,” Imran said.
Taking a jibe at the former chief minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, the PTI chairman called Nawaz’s younger brother “the country’s biggest showman
