Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan on Sunday demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign over revelations that three of his children owned offshore assets.
Addressing a public meeting in Lahore, Khan, who heads the opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said all opposition parties will meet in Islamabad on Monday to unanimously demand Sharif’s resignation and a judicial probe into his assets after the Panama Papers trove of leaked documents on overseas tax havens showed two of his sons and a daughter own offshore companies and assets.
“Resign as you have no moral justification to stay in power. We want explanation how money was sent abroad and if income tax was paid on the amount,” Khan said.
The Panama Papers, comprising some 11 million leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, have revealed that three companies were incorporated in the name of the two sons and daughter in Panama in the 1990s.
At a public meeting in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Saturday, Bilawal Bhutto, a co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, also demanded Sharif resign over the Panama Papers revelations pending a judicial investigation.
