Imran Khan calls for Sharif's resignation after leaks
Pakistani opposition political leader Imran Khan has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif following the exposure of new evidence against the premier's family.
Imran Khan led a rally of supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in the town of Pabbi on Sunday in the wake of Panama Papers leaks which revealed the Sharif family was involved in fraud and corruption.
"We all together must bring to account the corrupt ruling group at the top of our society, the leader of which is Nawaz Sharif,” Imran Khan told the rally.
“Until we bring them to account, you will have no future, no country has progressed with a corrupt leader," the former cricketer turned politician said.
Since early April, millions of confidential documents from the Panamanian Mossack Fonseca have been published, showing how the law firm helped rich and powerful clients across the world with shady businesses.
The clients reportedly included three of PM Sharif's children, who carried out business transactions which could be judged as money laundering and tax avoidance.
The leaked records revealed that Sharif's children, Hasan, Hussain and Maryam, not only owned offshore companies, but also real estate properties in London. The children had denied the facts initially, but later confessed to the family's links to offshore companies.
Hussain Sharif even went as far as saying that there was nothing wrong with ownership of offshore companies, adding that all the family’s business affairs were legal.
"Those apartments are ours and those offshore companies are also ours... There is nothing wrong with it," Hussain has told Pakistani media.
People in Pakistan, with Imran Khan at the helm, are asking for an inquiry to determine how Nawaz Sharif’s children made all that money to buy offshore companies and real estate in London's prime locations, and whether they had paid their due tax on their income.
The rich and influential Sharif family has always been tied up in legal battles involving cases of corruption, tax avoidance and money laundering from decades ago.
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