DERA MURAD JAMALI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Balochistan chief Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no option but to resign after the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case.

Talking to reporters at a lunch hosted by former provincial minister Saleem Khosa in the Mir Hasan area of Nasirabad district, he said two judges of the Supreme Court had declared Mr Sharif disqualified.

Former caretaker prime minister Mir Hazar Khan Khosa, former speaker Mir Zahoor Hussain Khosa, Mir Faiq Ali Khan Jamali and other leaders of the area were also present.

Sardar Rind said that the Supreme Court had ordered setting up of a joint investigation team on the wrongdoings of Mr Sharif and his family, but the JIT was not acceptable to the PTI because if the court could not give a clear verdict against a sitting prime minister, how could a team headed by a government officer give a decision against him.

“The people of Pakistan are disappointed at the SC verdict in the Panama Papers case,” the PTI leader said, adding that the masses had become fed up with the Sharif family’s corruption and style of governance.

He claimed that billions of rupees of the Kachhi canal project had been plundered, causing a delay in the project.

He said the Pat Feeder and Khirther canals irrigating three districts of Balochistan were on the brink of disaster as funds allocated for repairing and cleaning them and their distributaries had been misappropriated. The canals and distributaries suffered major damage in the floods of 2009 and 2010.

Mr Rind demanded an investigation into the alleged plunder of the funds of these projects.

He said PTI chairman Imran Khan would soon visit Quetta to address a public meeting. He said that PTI’s war was against corruption and the forces denying the people their rights.

Published in Dawn, April 25th, 2017