Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former premier Imran Khan on Sunday said that the country has become “a banana republic” as the Islamabad Police arrived at his Zaman Park residence to arrest him.
In a series of tweets, the ousted prime minister questioned what kind of future Pakistan will have given that “crooks are thrust as rulers” of the country.
He tweeted that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was “about to be convicted by NAB [National Accountability Bureau]” for money laundering of Rs8 billion and also by the FIA [Federal Investigation Agency] for another Rs16 billion of corruption.
Imran claimed that PM Shehbaz was rescued by former chief of army staff General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa who “kept getting [the] NAB cases trial postponed”.
The PTI chief furthered that Shehbaz had been made prime minister while he was under trial.
“He has since proceeded to select heads of those institutions investigating his cases – first FIA and now NAB – simply to get his name permanently cleared in [the] Rs16 billion corruption and Rs8 billion money laundering cases against him,” Imran tweeted.
“This is how a country becomes “a banana republic”,” he added.
