ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced a campaign to recover Faisal Subhan, man who the party claimed disappeared after hurling allegations of corruption against Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The decision was taken at a party meeting chaired by PTI chief Imran Khan on Sunday.
The party also decided to expedite its anti-corruption campaign in Punjab and break locks of the civil secretariat offices of the provincial government, locked in protest against arrest of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) DG Ahad Khan Cheema.
The PTI chief, chairing the meeting in Lahore via video link from Islamabad, directed the party MPAs to break the sealed offices if not reopened by 2pm on Monday. The party is also set to hold protest demonstrations in and outside the Punjab Assembly.
Imran, later, took to Twitter to demand a judicial inquiry into the ‘disappearance’ of Subhan, who is allegedly the chief executive officer (CEO) of a shell company Capital Construction.
He had allegedly confessed to the Chinese regulatory authority, tasked to probe corruption in the Multan Metro project, that Shehbaz Sharif along with other family members received kickbacks in overseas accounts from the project.
The PTI chief, in a series of tweets today, termed the revelation as Shehbaz having his very own “Panama moment”.
He added that as senior PAS Bureaucracy has been compromised, the country’s top court must guarantee that the Metro and Orange Line Project agreements must be brought before the masses.
Imran said the character of the ‘royal servant of Punjab’ has been unmasked. “It is unacceptable that such mega public money projects remain covert and evade all transparency and accountability,” he added.
However, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah had said on Saturday that a company in Pakistan used the name of a Chinese company to launder money from Pakistan to China. He said this company using fake contract documents of Multan Metro project, was sending money to China from Pakistan.
“The Chinese authorities took this matter up with Punjab government. A thorough inquiry was launched to investigate this case and all those responsible of laundering money in the name of Multan Metro were put behind bars for their crime,” he added.