WEB DESK
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that the apology tendered by a British tabloid Daily Mail over a fabricated story of corruption and embezzlement from earthquake relief funds has proved that all allegations leveled against him by leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were not only baseless but mala fide.
He said this while addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Monday along with federal cabinet members. The prime minister said when the article was published in 2019, PTI’s ministers were jubilant about the publication of the article and started leveling baseless allegations against him and his family.
“And despite it being a Sunday, Department for International Development (DFID) issued a clarification that nothing of the sort happened,” he said, adding, “It came to my knowledge that DFID’s clarification was delayed by six hours on Imran’s insistence because they wanted to slander me first.”
