Imran Khan demands immediate resignations from Nawaz, Shahbaz, Dar, Sadiq
Imran Khan has repeated his demand for the resignation of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, along with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while speaking to the press on Tuesday.
"His [Ishaq Dar] confessional statement has been proven to be correct which means that he is a money launderer," Imran said while explaining his reasoning for demanding Dar's resignation.
"Nowhere in the world does a money launderer become a finance minister," Khan said. He also accused Dar of corruption worth Rs180 billion in circular debt-related spending.
"They are levelling allegations against the JIT because it did not act like other institutions," he said, alleging that institutions including the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) were involved in obstruction of justice to protect the "criminal" Sharif family.
"Rather than forwarding a reference against Nawaz Sharif, Ayaz Sadiq forwarded a reference against me in order to protect the prime minister," Khan alleged. "The speaker balances and upholds the sanctity of parliament, which Sadiq has failed to do," Khan added.
"We are [also] going to court against Shahbaz Sharif," Imran Khan announced, repeating the allegation that he had granted his relatives the permission to form three sugar mills in a cotton-growing area — an act identified by courts as a 'conflict of interest', according to Khan.
Answering a question regarding the 'Imran-nama' comment by PML-N ministers yesterday, Khan said that he thought of it as a compliment since it left his stance "vindicated".
Criticising the role of federal ministers in the fiasco, Khan said that those who protect criminals are themselves accomplices and, by extension, criminals themselves, which cannot be acceptable in a country like Pakistan.
He also said that providing a money trail was not that difficult if one actually existed, adding that Jemima Khan, his former spouse, dug up bank statements from 15 years ago for the Supreme Court case in which he has to provide a money trail for assets he owns.
