• read top news

Imran gambled with Shaukat Khanum donations: Khawaja Asif

ISLAMABAD: MNA of PML (N), Khawaja Asif addressing a press conference at Punjab House.   Related News     PTI warned against staging dharna Party not to return to assemblies until JC findings: Imran   Related Articles     How to Minimise Corruption in Pakistan - A Proposal By Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad Corruption & Vertical Alignment By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)   Related Speakout     Disqualification References   More on this   View All PTI warned against staging dharna Party not to return to assemblies until JC findings: Imran Punjab should be the focal point for eliminating terrorists: PTI PTI ,Govt to meet again for dialogue PTI to hold rally on 17 January Imran called off Darna Lahore has given its verdict that 2013 elections were rigged: Imran   Related News Poll   Do you think that the present rift between the Government and the Judiciary can cause damage to the Government in near future?

ISLAMABAD: Responding to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) frequent attacks, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday hit back by accusing PTI chief Imran Khan of using and losing the donations for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital (SKMH) in speculative real estate business abroad.

PML-N stalwart Khawaja Asif, flanked by Pervez Rasheed, Mushahidullah Khan and Asim Khan, all three from the information wing of the party, at a press conference issued a fact sheet of the SKMH and hurled serious allegations at Khan, challenging him to prove the facts wrong in a court of the law.

Asif alleged that Khan had transferred Rs 4.5 billion out of the country from SKMH accounts, which were donated by people in charity to the hospital, to invest in speculative real estate business in Masqat and Dubai and incurred huge losses on those investments.

He pointed out that the company through which Shaukat Khanum Trust and Khan invested their money, had declared 64 losses. Asif accused Khan of money laundering and said that not only he put the donations in gambling but also lost the money.

He claimed that he had documents to establish the facts and said that money collected from zakat and fitrana was invested in separate businesses.

He told the media that the PTI chief had invested the money in unnamed offshore companies and that his front man, Imtiaz Haideri, had transferred the amount.

Nawaz involved in money laundering, has dubious assets: Imran

Reacting to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) allegations, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said the PML-N chief was involved in money laundering and that the charges the PML-N had levelled against him were baseless, adding that not a single penny of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital was misused.

In a tit-for-tat response to the press conference of Khawaja Asif of the PML-N at the Punjab House earlier in the day, Khan called a press conference wherein he said the PML-N was power hungry and could go to any extent for its interests.

Rejecting the allegations against him, Khan said that Nawaz Sharif had assets in foreign countries and the PML-N leadership was misusing public money in Raiwand and in their personal projects. "I am openly saying Nawaz Sharif is involved in money laundering and has dubious assets worth millions in foreign countries," said Khan and challenged Khawaja Asif to go to court against him.

Terming the PML-N press conference of Khawaja Asif a drama, the PML-N chief said its aim was to damage the Shaukat Khaman Memorial Trust.

He said he had not used a single rupee of the donations for personal purposes, adding that the accounts of the hospital were transparent and their details were available on its official website. Khan said the PML-N had also levelled allegations against him in the past and damaged the cause of the SKMH.

End.