Minister advises Imran to trust court, await decision

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Monday said the petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Supreme Court (SC) had no new allegation and Imran Khan should now trust the apex court and await its decision.

All the allegations levelled in the petition were old and had been repeated in the last 25 years and proved false, he said.Talking to a private news channel here, he said no allegation relates to any project under the tenure of any government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N)

He said the PML-N chief had been elected as the prime minister of Pakistan three times and had completed a number of development projects worth billions of dollars in his every tenure.PTI chief Imran Khan, who had crossed all limits in enmity of the PML-N, had failed to level allegations in his petition regarding any kind of corruption, mismanagement or kickbacks in any project of the  any project of the incumbent government, he said.

He said the PTI's recent petition was a certificate of honesty for Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. The minister said Imran Khan who had approached the apex court should trust the judicial system and wait for the verdict.

The PTI chief should not spread chaos in the streets on the basis of his so called allegations before the court verdict comes, he said. The protests on roads reflected Imran's lack of confidence in judiciary, which may come into the scope of contempt of court also.

Three previous governments including two regimes of Benazir Bhutto and one of Pervez Musharraf had failed to prove these same allegations, he added. He said if Pervez Musharraf could be able to prove these allegations then he would not have used the plane hijacking case.

The federal minister said the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had set up a factory in the UAE which was inaugurated by the head of UAE after the industry of Prime Minister's family in Pakistan was nationalised in 1972, during the first regime of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

This business was not hidden as its pictures were published in newspapers, he said. The then government could have filed a case against this family if some illegality was found in that process, he said, adding at that time Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was a student and his family was not participating in politics. He said Imran Khan does not want formation of Terms of Reference (ToRs) to probe Pananma Leaks.