to the premier.
Another scandalous accusation of the PTI chairman was that the premier’s family earned $60 million by exporting sugar to India and was planning to set up two sugar mills in southern Punjab against an order of the Lahore High Court (LHC).
This is not something that can be concealed from the public view and can be easily confirmed from the official record. If it is verified, the Sharif family will be squarely held guilty otherwise the contradiction of the prime minister’s office is unassailable.
Accusations of any nature and type are not unexpected from Imran Khan because he firmly believes that he can politically thrive by following this trajectory.
However, Information Minister Senator Pervez Rashid’s reaction to the exceptional diatribe was also overboard, which was against his temperament as he has the ability to couch even his severe attack in restrained language.
He dubbed Imran Khan as a thief, a traitor, a corrupt person and an agent of Pakistan’s enemies, who received funds from the Jewish and Hindu lobbies to attack parliament and used this money to try to topple an elected government last year by staging a sit-in and to sabotage the visit of the Chinese president to Pakistan. Under the law, no political party can raise funds from abroad or foreigners while the PTI chief got money from foreign firms whose owners were Jews, Hindus and Sikhs, he stated.
“Imran Khan should declare on oath that he had not received funds from abroad,” he said and asked the PTI chairman to take him to a court of law if what he said was wrong and that Imran Khan was not an agent of Pakistan’s enemies. He also released some documents to explain his contention that the PTI chief grossly misused party funds.
Already, a former PTI leader Akbar S Babar’s petition relating to the alleged embezzlement of party funds that it got from the US has been accepted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for regular hearing. The ECP stated that it has the powers to look into the financial affairs of the political parties.