Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Imran Khan had brought bad name to Pakistan as he ruined merit in the country. he always talked of democracy, but his thinking was fascist. He always tries to divide the nation through his negative thinking.
The prime minister said the flood affected people were still living under the open sky, and the government was working for their rehabilitation on fast-track basis to complete the second phase prior to start of the winter season, and added that a blame-game and dividing the nation for political point scoring would not complete the uphill task. He said all such tasks and other national issues were always solved through collective efforts and wisdom.
Shehbaz Sharif said that Imran Khan had manipulated his asset details during submission of his nomination papers for election in the election commission. He also committed misdeclaration in his tax returns and provided wrong account numbers, and when the State Bank of Pakistan pointed out those accounts, the ECP probed the accounts and found that there was no money trails of those accounts. He also helped her elder sister get an ‘NRO’ from the FBR through manipulation. Imran Khan held hostage a woman in the PM House and also blackmailed the NAB chairman so that their corruption cases related to Billion Tree Tsunami, BRT Peshawar, helicopter and Malam Jabba could not be opened, he added.
Shehbaz Sharif said that in 2019, the then prime minister Imran Khan’s Advisor Shahzad Akbar had sent a bundle of documents to the National Crime Agency (NCA) UK against him in the money-laundering case. However, after thorough investigation, the NCA admitted in the UK court that there was nothing illegal in the money trail and the court had shut the case and declared him innocent. By the grace of Allah Almighty, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) acquitted Maryam Nawaz and Ahsan Iqbal in such false cases, fabricated by Imran Khan.
PM Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan had now been out of grey list of FATF and it was the outcome of collective efforts of all coalition parties of the government, Pakistan armed forces and other relevant institutions. He congratulated all the allied parties of the government and the army chief on this great achievement. He recalled that Irman Khan, as the prime minister, had always remained indifferent to all the FATF related matters and legislations in the parliament, while the then opposition had played its due role and gave positive and effective inputs in the FATF related bills. “Today, Allah Almighty helped us and we are out of the grey list of the FATF,” he said. This landmark achievement would help mitigate substantially problems of the business community and the common man.
He said that it was on the record, earlier Pakistan had also been put on the FATF’s grey list but the then Nawaz Sharif government had managed to get the country out of the list. Unfortunately, Pakistan was again placed on the grey list as ill-conceived policies and politics of blame game and harassment by the previous government had jeopardised the country’s economy.