PML-N lashes back at Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD: In an obvious rebuttal to the opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek –e-Insaf and its chief Imran Khan, the PML-N led government held a hard-hitting press conference in Islamabad on Thursday.

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PMLN) stalwart and legislator Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said that as the Panama case was now under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, there remains no need to take coercive measures to block the capital city.

"There are the rights of Islamabad residents, who must be respected by not taking any unconstitutional measures," he said. 

Taking the charge after Chaudhry, PML-N leader Daniyal Aziz notched up his pitch against the PTI chief by accusing him of instigating terrorism in the name of politics.

"We have received information that the PTI is weaponising its party workers through seminaries that the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has recently announced to fund on taxpayers' money,” he said.

Aziz also questioned the financial integrity of Khan and his party's secretary general, Jahanghir Tareen, by saying that there are references against the two in the ECP filed over the loopholes present in the affidavits submitted by the respective leaders.

He further alleged that the PTI remains absent in the standing committee meetings working on legislations relevant to financial transparency.

"The PTI is following nefarious designs to achieve its political objectives," said Aziz.