Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that the Sharif family members might also have to explain about their stashed wealth before the United Kingdom (UK) authorities.

On his twitter account, the PTI chief said that Sharifs were answerable to UK authorities under the Britain’s Criminal Finances Act 2017.

Casting light on the law, Khan said it specifically deals with the illegal stashed wealth in the UK by foreign bureaucrats and politicians.

The tweets could be possible outcome of recent PML-N assertion that Pakistani laws could not be applied to the foreign nationals in connection with an accountability court proceedings against ex-PM Sharif’s sons, Hasan and Hussain Nawaz, in a graft reference against them. Earlier, Hasan Nawaz in apparent self-defence adopted a stance that he was a foreign national and NAB orders did not apply on him.

“I and my [elder] brother are foreign nationals. How can NAB laws could be applied on us. NAB cannot make someone a proclaimed offender, its like catching a black cat in the dark,” he said. He had also claimed of not receiving summons from the anti-graft watchdog at his London residence.

Similar sentiments were also echoed by the former premier’s daughter, stating that her brothers were foreign nationals and Pakistani laws could not be implemented on them.

Many PML-N leaders have termed NAB’s actions as political victimisation against former PM Sharif and his family members.

Published in Daily Times, October 13^th 2017.