Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has “urged” PTI Chairman Imran Khan to sue the Financial Times for defamation after the newspaper revealed that the PTI received foreign funding in 2013 in an indicating article.
“If he doesn’t [file a defamation case against FT] [and] I am sure he wouldn’t], it will prove one more time how brazenly he is lying [and] cheating the people of Pakistan,” PM Shehbaz wrote on Twitter.Imran Khan
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The FT article claims that Pakistani tycoon Arif Naqvi, who owns a country estate in the Oxfordshire village of Wootton, spImran Khanonsored a cricket tournament there from 2010 to 2012 in order to pay for the party in 2013.
According to the report, “In 2013, Naqvi transferred three instalments totaling $2.12 million directly to the PTI.”
According to the UK publication, each guest was required to pay between £2,000 and £2,500 in order to attend. The report further stated, quoting Naqvi, that the funds were used for unnamed “philanthropic causes.”Imran Khan
A United Arab Emirates government minister who is also a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family donated at least £2 million to Wootton Cricket, according to the FT report.
It should be noted that while Wootton Cricket account details and emails for the time period between February 28 and May 30, 2013, were made available to the Financial Times (FT), it was discovered that both companies and foreign nationals, as well as Pakistanis, sent millions of dollars to Wootton Cricket before the money was transferred to the PTI in Pakistan.
The premier had earlier claimed in another tweet that the story had brought some “screaming facts” to light.Imran Khan
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“Could it possibly be any worse? The Financial Times article that describes the flow of foreign funding into PTI bank accounts exposes the façade of self-declared honesty [and] righteousness. Imran Niazi is a mass of glaring inconsistencies, lies, and hypocrisy. blatant truths! “He composed.Imran Khan
Khan’s reaction
In response, Khan stated that he had known Arif Naqvi for the previous 20–25 years in response to inquiries about the Pakistani tycoon’s alleged involvement in the PTI’s finances. “He [Naqvi] was helping the nation because he was a gifted individual who could have helped it by rising.
“Naqvi used to give us substantial sums for the cancer hospital; he also hosted two fundraiser dinners for PTI in 2012, set up a game in London, and invited top businessmen in Dubai — money is raised like this all over the world,” said a PTI employee.
In his words, “we have a database of 40,000 donors,” his party is the first to raise money through political fundraising. Every year, funds for the cancer hospital are raised to the tune of Rs 9 billion. Why aren’t PPP and PML-N asked about their funds when they don’t even have a database?Imran Khan
Khan continued by saying that no money was obtained illegally and that all transactions were conducted through legitimate banking channels.
Khan described Naqvi’s case as a “big tragedy” and noted that it is still pending. “Nothing was lost,”
