ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that by taking a huge U-turn in the Panamagate case, Nawaz Sharif has lost his moral authority to remain the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
“I have witnessed the biggest U-turn of history today. Nawaz Sharif is the one who has taken a U-turn. No one [in the government] could have imagined that Nawaz Sharif would be searched in the Supreme Court,” he said while talking to the media outside the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday.
“Nawaz Sharif had said he would not tender resignation and he was ready for accountability. On the other hand, the counsel for the PM is trying that the SC doesn’t hear this case. Nawaz Sharif gave wrong statements in parliament. The government bluffed and got trapped,” he said, and added that Nawaz shifted the burden of the money trail to his children, and his children shifted it to the Qatari prince. “The government is [now] confused”, as the rulers thought the Supreme Court would not take up the case, he said.
Imran said the premier told a lie, and now the government wanted the court to ignore it. He said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had not accepted until 2016 that Nawaz Sharif owned the flats, but the premier had to accept it – willingly or unwillingly – following the emergence of Panama leaks.
The PTI chief said that the BBC had made it clear that the Mayfair flats were owned by the Sharifs since 1993. He said that if the government was in the right then why had it not sued the BBC and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). “The entire nation is waiting for the money trail to be presented.”
