London (June 24, 2017): Prime Minister lamenting over Joint Investigation Team, probing Sharif family wealth abroad, said that JIT investigation only grilling our personal business and nothing more as it looks like a joke.
Talking to media in London PM Nawaz Sharif said he asked JIT had any misappropriation done in state exchequer but they have no answer.
“Is it an accountability, no it is a joke,” PM said.
“We have stand our economy strong with efforts day and nights, however waging investigation in Panama leaks the time of Pakistan being wasted,” he said adding that even opponents did not have any evidence against government.
“Without any evidence why investigations conducted against us, it is out of understanding,” PM said. “Whole nation is going to direction peace and development but JIT is moving such a opposite way,” he said.
Nawaz Sharif commented that the JIT has no case against him. “They don’t have an allegation against me. Our businesses are spread over 80 years. What the JIT is doing is not accountability but a joke. We are being distracted by its operations and our time wasted.
Suggesting that the JIT has been formed as a political project, Sharif mentioned the team’s goal is to discredit him through a legal stamp in order to engineer the political landscape in favour of his opponents. “Our political rivals suffered a bitter defeat in the 2013 elections and they are fearful now of another beating in 2018,” he said, adding that attempts are afoot to help elements who have no chance to be successful in fair elections.
The head of the state condemned the JIT in most belligerent tone, noting that such “conspiracies” will not be allowed to succeed. Sharif revealed that he asked the JIT members some questions earlier, to which they failed to provide appropriate, justifiable response.
Underscoring the fact that the JIT’s history is in front of everyone and open for everyone to see if it started from Whatsapp appointments, Sharif said, “The kind of people who have appeared as witnesses before the JIT for questioning are our worst political enemies. So you can understand now what the JIT is looking for.”
The JIT is a “trial of my ancestors, myself, and my kids. It is a tamasha (circus), we are witnessing a tamasha,” the leader claimed, adding that it is not himself or his family that he is worried about.
“We opened new powerhouses, gave life to the energy sector, helped the stock market move towards a boom recently, and focused on setting up new infrastructure in the country, including roads and motorways,” explained Sharif, stressing that his utmost concern is the country’s economic development, especially what has been done in the past four years.
Taking on the JIT, Sharif challenged it to find a single case of corruption or kickbacks against his government in the ongoing four-year period, his tenure as the Chief Minister of Punjab or the two-time Prime Minister-ship earlier.
Sharif raised objections over the opposition’s statements about “raising the umpire’s finger”. He alleged his political rivals developed an enmity following the defeat in last elections.
The Prime Minister asked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership to explain “who was the umpire” that Imran Khan referred to throughout the protests four years ago when the latter kept predicting that the umpire will soon start raising fingers.
The premier vowed to eliminate power outages and reaffirmed the doubts over his family’s objections regarding the construction of JIT. He also pointed out that the financial stock market has suffered a great deal due to the political unrest.
Nawaz Sharif asked his detractors to let Pakistan move forward. “Enemies of Pakistan are against its development; it’s a conspiracy. They are the same people who are involved in dirty politics.”
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