ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry has said that the party will file a petition with the Supreme Court against the PM for allegedly taking money from al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in the name of Jihad.
According to a media report, Imran Khan-led PTI announced the decision to approach the apex court relying on the ‘revelations’ made in certain interviews and a book titled Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-e-Aman.
Chaudhry, while talking to the media, claimed that the money was provided to the Nawaz Sharif’s party in 1980 and was later utilised in 1989 to conspire against Benazir Bhutto’s government.
“PTI will file the petition in the ongoing week seeking admission of a case against the prime minister for taking funds from a foreign individual to destabilise and conspire against democracy in Pakistan,” he said.
However, the report said that PTI currently possesses no substantial evidence to fortify its case before the court, except for some interviews and excerpts from the book written by Shamama Khalid, wife of a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy Khalid Khawaja, who was brutally murdered in 2010 by Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan.
Shamama has claimed in the book that Sharif took money, amounting to Rs1.5 billion, from Bin Laden to promote Jihad in Indian-Occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
“Later, an amount of Rs270 million from this money was utilised to support a no-confidence move against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 1989,” she stated.
In a statement over the issue, the PTI spokesperson said, “In past Nawaz Sharif remained an active part of several conspiracies against the elected governments.”
Last week, the PTI announced opening up another legal front against the PM, saying it would file a petition demanding implementation on a 2012 verdict of the apex court in the Asghar Khan case.
The case determined that Sharif and other politicians had received money from an intelligence agency prior to the 1990 general election to form an alliance against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
