Lashing out at the coalition government, former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that it will not damage the interest of the “gang of thieves” if the country defaults.
\nAddressing a press conference Sunday, Khan said the “gang of thieves” has properties in foreign countries worth billions of dollars, hence they do not care about the economic collapse of the country.
\nHe added that the US dollar will further shoot up and there would be no foreign investment “if Pakistan defaults”.
\n\u201cA group of thieves has been imposed on us,\u201d the deposed premier said, adding that the gang has been stealing national wealth for the past 30 years. He also said they were laundering the looted money abroad via illegal means including hundi and hawala.
\nA day earlier, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar reiterated that the \u201ceconomy is going in the right direction\u201d and it would \u201cnot default\u201d. He added that no more experiments could be done with the country\u2019s economy as Pakistan had gone through its \u201cdarkest economic periods\u201d during the previous government\u2019s tenure.
\nPeople came to know how the Sharif family was laundering the looted money when the Hudaibia Paper Mills case surfaced, Khan added. The Sharif family\u2019s \u201cfront man\u201d Ishaq Dar recorded his statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and revealed the details of the money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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