Tareen, Aleem themselves answerable to allegations: Imran

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said his party’s leaders Jahangir Khan Tareen and Aleem Khan are themselves answerable to allegations hurled against them.

Speaking to a private TV channel today, Khan said the government would be held accountable for not catching the two PTI leaders if they were involved in any wrongdoings.

“The two have however declared their assets,” he added.

Imran Khan ruled out any possibility of accepting a commission formed on the letter written to the chief justice by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, adding that the terms of reference (ToRs) prepared by the joint opposition were final and his party will not back off from their basic demand.

Commenting on the issue of women harassment at PTI rallies, Khan said he regretted the unfortunate incidents. He said he was preparing a workers’ force in order to avoid such untoward incidents from happening in the future.

Meanwhile, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has written a letter to Prime Minister Sharif, asking the government to hold a dialogue with opposition parties over the ToRs for the inquiry commission investigating the Panama leaks.

Following the government’s rejection of the opposition-proposed ToRs for the proposed judicial commission investigating the Panama leaks, the opposition leader wrote to the premier saying that the opposition is no mood to lock horns with the government.

On Wednesday, a high-level meeting at the Prime Minister House rejected the TORs presented by the opposition. Leaders at the meeting claimed that the document unveiled by the opposition were not ToRs, but a 'parallel legal system' that could not be accepted for any inquiry under relevant laws.

The government argued that the opposition's ToRs were based on ill-intentions aimed at entangling Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The government had also accused the opposition of mistrusting the legal system and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.