Daily Times

KASUR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that the Supreme Court’s decision in the ongoing Panamagate case will have far reaching effects on Pakistan’s future.

Kaptaan claimed that Pakistan would ‘change’ over whatever verdict in Panama Leaks case would be.

“It is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that a serving prime minister is being held accountable over corruption,” the PTI chairman addressed participants of a party rally in Kasur district of Punjab on Sunday.

The SC is hearing a slew of petitions filed by the opposition parties in the wake of the Panama Papers leaks, with the Sharifs facing allegations of corruption.

Firing a broadside at Nawaz Sharif, the PTI chief said: “You are a king of corruption in Pakistan.” No country can progress if its rulers are corrupt, he added.

Talking about Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl leader Fazlur Rehman, Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai, he said, “They have probably sensed that the ship is going to sink therefore they are jumping off it to save themselves.”

Earlier, referring to a recent incident, Imran said an elderly woman by the name of Zahra from Kasur expired in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital after her relatives moved from pillar to post for her treatment.

“This all happened because the rulers are not even aware of the situation commoners face at the public hospitals,” he said. “They go abroad even for their medical check-ups.”

Kaptaan claimed that Nawaz would lose his premiership if letter of the Qatari prince is proved a lie in Panama Leaks case.

“Pakistan is finally changing. End days of the corrupt rulers are drawing near. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, an incumbent prime minister is being interrogated in the Supreme Court on corruption charges,” he said.

The skipper vowed to the participants that the PTI was to come in power in the near future and demanded Nawaz to come clean and not hide behind his ministers. He said that the premier maintained before the Supreme Court that he is the ruler of the nation and thus has immunity provided by the constitution.

Calling attention towards the dire need of better health system, the PTI chief lamented over expenditure of Rs 12 billion on advertisements with pictures of both the Sharifs, while he said Rs 4 billion were spent to construct Shaukat Khanum Hospital Peshawar, which is bigger than Jinnah Hospital Lahore.