AMN / PAKISTAN
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan today said that July 26 will see the dawn of a ‘new Pakistan’. He made the remarks while addressing supporters in Swat following the announcement of the Avenfield reference verdict against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family.
Imran said that for the first time, “the powerful are being held accountable”. The PTI chief stated that Nawaz’s son had accepted ownership of the London properties on television.
Imran also lamented the lodging of several cases against him in a bid to silence his struggle in exposing the Sharif family’s corruption.
Earlier, speaking at a rally before the Avenfield reference verdict was announced, Imran labeled corruption as the country’s biggest problem.
“Corruption was and remains Pakistan’s biggest plague,” he addressed the public in Lower Dir, referring to the imminent verdict in Avenfield reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family.
“All of Pakistan is awaiting the verdict. I am waiting for the verdict. It is very important.
“These corrupt rulers stole the nation’s money and laundered it abroad. What they earn [during power], a common labourer cannot even earn in his lifetime,” Imran said.
Taking a jibe at the former chief minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, the PTI chairman called Nawaz’s younger brother “the country’s biggest showman”.