Imran Khan gambled with Shaukat Khanum donations

DAILY TIMES

Responding to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) frequent attacks, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday hit back by accusing PTI chief Imran Khan of using and losing the donations for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital (SKMH) in speculative real estate business abroad. PML-N stalwart Khawaja Asif, flanked by Pervez Rasheed, Mushahidullah Khan and Asim Khan, all three from the information wing of the party, at a press conference issued a fact sheet of the SKMH and hurled serious allegations at Khan, challenging him to prove the facts wrong in a court of the law. Asif alleged that Khan had transferred Rs 4.5 billion out of the country from SKMH accounts, which were donated by people in charity to the hospital, to invest in speculative real estate business in Masqat and Dubai and incurred huge losses on those investments. He pointed out that the company through which Shaukat Khanum Trust and Khan invested their money, had declared 64 losses. Asif accused Khan of money laundering and said that not only he put the donations in gambling but also lost the money. He claimed that he had documents to establish the facts and said that money collected from zakat and fitrana was invested in separate businesses. He told the media that the PTI chief had invested the money in unnamed offshore companies and that his front man, Imtiaz Haideri, had transferred the amount.