The Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Wednesday claimed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has failed to provide satisfactory evidence about his children's properties abroad. "In the Parliament, he (Sharif) had said that he had all the evidence. But now in the court his lawyer claims he does not have records from the 1980s," Khan told reporters outside the Supreme Court building after attending the Panamagate case.
"They are claiming that their entire business is being run on receipts," he said, adding, "Morally the Prime Minister should step down." Elaborating on the proceedings in the court on Wednesday, he said that the judges think that PTI has raised valid questions, adding he will inform the court on Friday whether or not his party is in favour of forming a commission.
"What Nawaz Sharif said on the floor of the National Assembly earlier was a 'political move,' as their lawyer said today this in court. Article 191 of the Constitution says that the Prime Minister is accountable and answerable to public," he added. He said till date, all recordings of the Sharif family say that they have no properties abroad and now it is being proved that their claims of documentary evidence and money trails do not exist at all.
He regretted that people are dying for a Rs 100 note, but for the Sharifs there are people who appear from nowhere with billions of dollars to rescue after the Panama leaks case hearing started. "Where did this money come from and how was it procured? And now they are saying that they have no documentation and the entire business was done on 'parchis,'" he questioned.
"We have asked the courts to give us two days to deliberate over this," he said, adding the entire nation wants speedy justice and a quick verdict. "We will examine the ToRs of the commission they are proposing; however, all the institutions (NAB, FIA etc) that are supposed to investigate are all under Nawaz Sharif so by law and the right thing to do would be for him to resign; otherwise how can the investigations be free and open," he added.
He said that this is how real democracies function. Even if a train accident happens in the West, the railway minister resigns when probe starts. "We will sit and deliberate. The Supreme Court has not made a final decision on the commission as yet and day after tomorrow we will give them our point of view," he added. Nawaz Sharif's lawyers failed to answer even a single question that the courts have asked regarding the Panama papers. They refused to prove Nawaz Sharif as clean from these massive cases of corruption, he added.
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