FAISALABAD: PTI chief Imran Khan has said Panama leaks issue and his party’s protest in Islamabad ‘will decide the future of Pakistan’ as the country can’t progress when a ‘corrupt’ premier and ministers are at the helm.

He was addressing members of the district bar association here on Thursday.

He said Panama was the evidence and not the allegations as flight of capital took place money laundering. Following the Panamagate, he said, neither the prime minister was clearing his position nor tendering his resignation.

He said former prime minister of the UK, David Cameroon, had cleared his position when his name surfaced in the Panama leaks.

“China made a considerable progress due to control on corruption, however, in Pakistan the institutions whose task is to expose corrupt elements, are supporting corruption,” he said.

Imran said corruption was weakening the institutions and strong state organs would make the nation stronger.

He said: “Justice is not being dispensed to the people and questioned as to why PML-N did not set up the Lahore High Court bench in Faisalabad.”

Later, he addressed a PTI workers convention where two groups had a clash.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2016