ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said it would sue Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Supreme Court for receiving funds from al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in the 80s, to promote jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Party spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said he would petition the SC this week seeking admission of a case against Sharif for “taking funds from a foreign individual to destabilise and conspire against democracy in Pakistan.”
A report said PTI would submit interviews and excerpts from a book titled 'Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-e Aman', as evidence. Written by Shamama Khalid, wife of former Inter-Services Intelligence spy Khalid Khawaja, the book claims that Sharif took around Rs 1.5 billion from Osama to promote jihad in the two regions. Sources also claimed that later million of dollars from this money was used to support a no-confidence move in 1989 against Benazir Bhutto, former two-time prime minister murdered in a terrorist attack in 2007.
The Opposition party also announced that it would file a petition seeking implementation on a 2012 verdict of the apex court in the Asghar Khan case. The case had observed that Sharif and other politicians had received money from ISI before the 1990 general election to form an alliance against the Pakistan Peoples Party.
