Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that former prime minister Imran Khan “abused his powers” as prime minister by giving public money to property tycoon Malik Riaz. Bilawal Zardari is the only government official to have named Malik Riaz in light of the case against Imran Khan, instead of merely referring to him as a property tycoon.
Former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday in connection with corruption involving the Al-Qadir University Trust.
The coalition government had accused Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, last year of obtaining land worth billions of rupees for their trust from Malik Riaz to build an educational institute, which according to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), caused a loss of more than $239m to the national exchequer, reported Al Jazeera.
“جب عمران خان کو موقع ملا کہ 190 ملین پاؤنڈ پاکستان کی عوام کو واپس دے تو عمران خان نے اپنے اختیارات کا ناجائز فائدہ اٹھاتے ہوئے ایک بند لفافے کو زبردستی کابینہ سے منظور کروا کر ملک ریاض کو پیسے دے دیئے۔”
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“They provided Imran with the chance to give Pakistan its money back. He abused his office, the office of the prime minister of Pakistan,” he said.
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