'Beginning of a new Pakistan', says Imran Khan
July 06, 2018 20:52
Hours after the accountability court pronounced the Avenfield reference case verdict, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said that "it is the beginning of a new Pakistan."
Khan opined that it was the first time in the country's history that "the powerful are being held accountable for the first time."
"Nobody would take me seriously when I used to say that they [Sharifs and Zardari] have bought properties abroad. I thank God today because the struggle that I began 22 years ago [has now borne fruit]," Khan was quoted by The Dawn, as saying.
He claimed that if former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sent to jail earlier, the country's institutions would have functioned normally and smoothly, Geo TV reported.
The former cricketer-turned-politician added that Sharif's sons had accepted that they owned Avenfield properties in London on television.
Launching a scathing attack on Sharif and Pakistan People's Party chief and former president Asif Ali Zardari, Khan alleged that the two destroyed state institutions, and appealed to the public to root out corruption from Pakistan.
He lamented that while fighting against "massive corruption" of the Sharif family, several cases were registered against him in a bid to stall his struggle.
-- ANI
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