Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said that both Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari have their wealth out of the country and such leaders cannot play a role in development of the country.

“Nawaz and Zardari both have their assets abroad and a leader who has everything abroad cannot give attention to the country. Those countries cannot progress as long as their (leader’s) stakes are not in country,” he said, while addressing a trader’s convention.

“A person who doesn’t live and die for the nation cannot understand their pain,” he said. He said that Nawaz’s sons are claiming they are not Pakistani citizens and are unanswerable to the courts, while Ishaq Dar’s sons are living abroad and have become billionaires.

He decried that rupee has depreciated exponentially, while the performance of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ‘experts’ is now in front of us. He warned that this could further increase prices and increase foreign debts.

Imran said that there can be no investment if institutions are destroyed and if the nation remains backwards despite the presence of resources, then it shows poor governance. He said that leaders like Nawaz and Zardari were urging others to bring their wealth back to the country while sending their own wealth abroad.