ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced to file an appeal against the court verdict, declaring party founding chief Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi guilty in the £190m reference.
Addressing media in the federal capital, PTI stalwart and Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub said they would challenge the verdict in the higher courts.
Calling it a ‘Black Day’, Leader of Opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz said that superior courts would dismiss the “baseless” case against Imran.
Dismissing the notion that the former prime minister was involved in corrupt practices, Faraz reiterated that neither the national exchequer had been damaged nor had Khan and his wife received any benefit from Al-Qadir University.
Khan’s lawyer Faisal Chaudhry, speaking to reporters outside Adiala jail, condemned “NAB’s political usage”, saying the accountability watchdog had become a tool in governments hands. “NAB’s investigation [in Al-Qadir Trust case] is flawed.”
The public prosecutor’s evidence neither contained any proof of monetary gains, crime proceeds, nor of financial corruption, he added.
Chaudhry claimed till date the prosecutor did not present, on record, a single case of money laundering, whether of UK court or Pakistan court, against the PTI founder.
He also made personal attacks on the judge, raising question about his honesty. “This is […] hand-picked judge was declared by the Supreme Court as not worthy of being appointed as a judge,” he said.
This is a developing story and is being updated with more details.
