Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Thursday said the Chinese have badly exposed Multan Metro Bus scam by directly implicating Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. In a tweet, he urged the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to investigate all Metro Bus and Orange Line Train projects which, he alleged, were clearly not undertaken for the well-being of the masses but for massive 'kickbacks.'
"Like the Panama Papers exposed Nawaz Sharif and his family's corruption, the Chinese have exposed Multan Metro fraud directly implicating Shahbaz Sharif," he tweeted. Khan's tweets come after Chief Minister Punjab's presser in Lahore on Wednesday last in which he denied receiving kickbacks from two companies. Earlier, media reports emerged that huge corruption and funds embezzlement were committed in Multan Metro Bus project with transferring large amount of money to a Chinese company.
Rejecting all allegations regarding transfer of $17 million to China in respect of Multan Metro Bus project, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif challenged his detractors, saying that either they should prove the charges or remain silent. "Put up or shut up," he asked his opponents while addressing a news conference at his Model Town office.
He asserted that there was no truth in media reports about alleged transfer of $17 million to China in the name of Multan Metro Bus project, accusing a private television channel of hatching propaganda against him. Shahbaz announced to serve a legal notice on a private TV channel and Opposition Leader in Senate Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, if they do not retreat from their false claims within 48 hours. He denied existence of the alleged Capital Engineering and Construction Company, terming it a poor attempt to defame his office and undermine his achievements.
Chaudhry Aitzaz said that he had not received any legal notice from Shahbaz Sharif yet, adding if there comes a legal notice from the flamboyant chief minister, he would reply to the notice. "If he [Shahbaz] thinks the Panama Leaks case only involves Nawaz Sharif and his children, he is wrong, as there is so much against him, and things will be cleared once the Hudaibiya Papers Mills case is opened," he told reporters.