Suspicious use of funds: Complaint filed against Imran in UK

President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of United Kingdom chapter Zubair Gull Thursday filed a complaint with two relevant bodies in the country showing suspicions about the usage of funds raised by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan apparently for the cancer hospital, seeking thorough enquiry into the matter. In his complaint filed with the Fund Raising Standards Board and the Charity Commission of UK, the complainant raised the matter of grave concern involving Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf holding several fundraising events in the UK.
He said Khan has in the past and on a regular basis held fund raising events in the UK and those had been publicised as fundraisers for the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Research Hospital in Pakistan. "However, what has never been publicised or made transparent was the application of the funds raised," he said. The PML(N) UK President said the donors have never received any qualified or independent audit on how the money was distributed or spent.
"What is particularly disconcerting is lack of transparency between Khan's political aspirations and charitable aims. Mr Khan is synonymous with both Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Shaukat Khanum Cancer Research Hospital," the complainant contended. He maintained that the blurred lines between Imran's political ambitions and his involvement in charitable work invited suspicions that funds raised for ostensible charitable purposes in a society with a fragile democracy," the complainant observed.
He said the said contentions not only invited but also demanded a scrupulous enquiry by the appropriate regulators in this country into the activities of those engaged in fundraising lest it be said that the regulators have turned a blind eye to such matters and tacitly acquiesced to criminality and sedition. Gull also provided the two bodies with a copy of Imran's promotional literature for his fundraising events which "clearly" demonstrated their concerns about the opacity of his intentions and the lack of transparency about the application of the funds. He opined that this event was clearly a political event and therefore the only sensible inference to be drawn is that this fundraising is for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.