Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has “urged” PTI Chairman Imran Khan to sue the Financial Times for defamation after the newspaper reported that the PTI got foreign funds in 2013 in an indicating piece.
“If he doesn’t [launch a defamation action against FT] [and] I am confident he wouldn’t], it will reveal one more time how openly he is lying [and] scamming the people of Pakistan,” PM Shehbaz posted on Twitter.
The FT report claims that Pakistani tycoon Arif Naqvi, who owns a country home in the Oxfordshire village of Wootton, sponsored a cricket tournament there from 2010 to 2012 in order to pay for the party in 2013.
According to the investigation, “In 2013, Naqvi transferred three instalments totaling $2.12 million directly to the PTI.”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 article.
