| Imran to drag PML-N’s Asif to court over false accusations |
ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tehriki Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), the opposition parties engaged these days in a war of words, are about to enter a legal battle as Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he would sue PML-N leader Khwaja Asif for levelling ‘false allegations’ against him and his charity hospital.
“I request the chief justice to take up this case immediately as elections are near and the PML-N wants to run its whole campaign by targeting the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital,” Khan said at a press conference at his party’s central secretariat. He said the petition would be filed in a day or two.
“I will request the chief justice to take up the issue in the national interest. If allegations of Khwaja Asif are true then proceed against me,” he said.
He said that he had already taken another PML-N legislator Hanif Abbasi to court for accusing the directors of his cancer hospital of drawing heavy salaries, but the case was still pending.
Welcoming Khan’s move to adopt a legal course, PML-N’s lawmaker from Sialkot said he would anxiously await a legal notice.
Talking to Dawn, the PML-N stalwart asked Khan “not to malign the SKMH Trust by taking political refuge behind the esteemed institution”.
“Save the country’s largest charity organisation from the PML-N’s propaganda,” Khan appealed to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and said he feared the PML-N could go to the extent of destroying the SKMH projects only to achieve its political objectives.
By arrangement with Dawn
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