LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that Imran Khan wants to see him behind the bar but “my companions will expose this Niazi even if I am detained.”

“It would not matter if I have to go to jail again. We will keep raising our voices,” Shehbaz said while addressing a news conference along Shahid Khaqaan Abbasi, Rana Sanaullah, Khurram Dastgir and others here at the PML-N Secretariat on his birthday on Wednesday.

Shehbaz said the “selected” PM who made so many promises to the nation has failed to fulfill them.

Exposing the ruling PTI’s government two years performance, the Opposition leader raised questions about different cases including Malam Jabba, helicopter, and foreign funding cases.

“The people want to get rid of this government as they failed to deliver during the last two years,” he said.

He also blamed Imran Khan and Usman Buzdar of trying to cover up the Sugar scandal. He said inflation touched the sky as flour and many other edibles were out of reach of a common man.

“Sugar per kg was available for Rs 50 which has rose up to Rs 100,” he said. “The people could not buy fuel for transportations. Wheat and flour have vanished from local markets.”

Shehbaz said Imran Khan will lose his office if election commission announced decision on foreign funding case.

He also came down hard upon fake allegations of Imran Khan against him and said “Khan failed to submit reply in the court in the defamation suit.”

Shehbaz alleged that massive corruption was made in BRT Peshawar and other projects under the PTI government. He said that Peshawar BRT was completed in Rs 127 billion while three BRTs in Punjab were completed in Rs 100 billion. He also claimed saving of millions of rupees in the Safe City Project.

He also stated that Rs 10 billion were saved by Nawaz Sharif in the Orange Line project.

He pointed out that delay in Orange Line Metro Train Project was caused due to litigation initiated by the PTI.

“Now the PTI is in power for the last two years but they could not run Orange Line Metro Train project which escalated its cost,” he added.

Sharing about allegations of Imran Khan Niazi against him, Shehbaz said firstly Imran alleged that Javed, a friend of mine, is my frontman and I took Rs 27 billion from him as a bribe.

“I even wrote Imran Khan a letter on this and received no reply.”

He (Imran) then claimed that Nawaz gave me Rs 10 billion in the Panama Papers case. Two years have passed and no progress has been made in the case. Then it was alleged by Imran that I took a bribe from a Chinese company for the construction of the Multan Metro Bus Project but this also proved false.

“Lastly, let’s not forget the Daily Mail article. The British government itself said that there was no truth in it,” Shehbaz said.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020