ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (APP): Minister of Capital Administration
and Development Division (CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry Monday here
said Pakistan Tehreek i Insaf (PTI) was trying to mislead Supreme
Court by submitting false documents in Panama papers case.
Speaking at a press conference along with Pakistan Muslim
League(N) Member National Assembly Daniyal Aziz, he said PMLN
completely rejected the facts and figures presented by PTI in the
court.
He said history of PTI was replete with lies as Imran Khan
first talked about “35 punctures” and fake ballot papers as part of
his allegations about general elections 2013.
PTI did not apologize when its allegations were rejected by
judicial commission, he added.
He said Pakistan Tehreek i Insaf (PTI) tried to arouse
emotions of people by relentlessly agitating on the issue of Panama
leaks.
The minister said lawyers of all sides had completed arguments
in Panama Papers case but PTI yet again submitted more bundle of
papers, which were nothing but falsehood, fraud and baseless
allegations.
Imran Khan had already faced embarrassment due to the useless
evidence submitted in the court, he added.
First Imran said he had evidence in Panama papers case but
then said his role was only to hurl allegations, he added.
Tariq Fazal said the PTI leader abused every national
institution; National Accountability Bureau, Federal Board of
Revenue, Election Commission and others.
He said PMLN leadership offered PTI to stop the war of words
between them but it did not get a response.
He said Pakistan had been making progress in different fields,
adding people needed to be united in the face of recent wave of
terrorism.
Daniyal Aziz said first lawyer of PTI Hamid Khan took back
evidence when the judges stated that court’s time should not be
wasted with useless stuff.
He said the new documents by PTI given to the court were of no
legal use.
Daniyal said Imran Khan, Jehangir Tareen and other leaders of
PTI indulged in financial irregularities.
According to recent media reports, the whole leadership of PTI
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa evaded taxes, he added.
He reminded that International Consortium for Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ) on its website posted that it was neither
suggesting nor implying that anything wrong was done by those whose
names appeared in Panama Papers.
He said despite this stance of ICIJ, for months a campaign of
character assassination and media trial continued on television
channels.
It was right of supporters to defend Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif, who had popularity rating of 60-65 percent among the public,
he added.