Sharifs only interested in maintaining power to transfer nation’s wealth to their private overseas coffers
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ISLAMABAD
Imran Khan on Wednesday instructed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) senior leadership to remain in Islamabad for the next three days ahead of the Panamagate verdict on April 20.
Khan issued the missive in a meeting to discuss party strategy in the days following the Panamagate verdict, due to be announced on Thursday by the Supreme Court.
The judgement will be announced by a five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, in Courtroom No 1 at 2pm amidst tight security.
No one is certain if it will be a unanimous judgement, with most practitioners saying it’s very difficult to guess what dimension of the case the bench will consider.
‘PTI spoke up for the people’
PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday took a brief moment to speak to the media while the PTI core committee meeting was underway in Bani Gala.
“They tried their best to put off discussion on Panama Leaks. They wanted the issue to die on its own. But PTI kept pushing,” he said, adding if the party had not pursued the case like it did, the issue would have been forgotten.
He said that PTI spoke up for the people of Pakistan and clear the misconception that they do not care about corruption.
Qureshi appreciated the role of the media, and said journalists in talk shows and newspapers kept the issue alive.
He also thanked the public for taking interest in the issue, saying it made other political parties take notice and speak out on the issue as “previously, they were trying to deflect it”.
Khan’s party, which was a petitioner in the case, has agitated repeatedly for the accountability of ruling powers in the country and stands to gain considerable political capital ahead of next year’s general election if its allegations against the Sharif family are vindicated by the apex court.
Chairman PTI Imran Khan has expressed concern over the growing power outages alongside the increasingly hot weather in the country. “
In a statement issued here Wednesday by PTI spokesperson, Imran said this government has not only failed to deliver on its promises of ending loadshedding, during the 2013 election campaign, it is guilty of criminal neglect for failing to reform the power sector. Theft and non-payment of dues by public sector entities are all being passed on to hapless consumers in the shape of inflated bills.
