PTI to ramp up public campaign against government

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) decided on Saturday to ramp up its public campaign against the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, besides pleading the Panama case against Sharif family in the Supreme Court.
The party has announced to hold public gatherings in different parts of the country in a bid to increase pressure on the ruling party for accountability in the Panama Leaks case. Chairman PTI Imran Khan will address public gatherings in Dera Ghazi Khan, Kasur and Sahiwal on 15th, 22nd and 29th January respectively.
Khan has already addressed a public gathering in Bahawalpur on January 8. A senior leader of the party told Business Recorder that his party would use all the possible forums to put pressure on the ruling party for the accountability.
The Supreme Court is hearing the Panama Leaks case on daily basis wherein the PTI lawyer Naeem Bukhari has concluded his arguments in the case and now it is turn of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his children's lawyers to present their arguments.
The Prime Minister is accused of money laundering, corrupting and having benami assets in London, especially the Mayfair flats. He has, however, denied all the allegations as baseless and frivolous.
On the other hand, Secretary General PTI Jehangir Tareen said in a statement that his party will further intensify its public campaign after Sahiwal jalsa on January 29.
"2017 will be a year of thriving change in Pakistan. Future will be of Pakistan and its 18 million people and PML-N's gang of liars and scammers have no right to lead such a great nation," he remarked.
Tareen also said that the fresh report of BBC about the Prime Minister and his family has revealed the truth and the Prime Minister has no reason to cling to the office. According to the nation's aspirations, accountability is the last and only option, he added.
The BBC reported on Friday that properties owned by the Sharif family in London's upscale Park Lane neighborhood were purchased in the 1990s and there has been no change of ownership since then.
After the Panama Papers were published, Prime Minister's son Hussain Nawaz had accepted the family's ownership of Nielsen and Nescoll. "The Park Lane apartments in London are ours, two offshore companies, Nielsen and Nescoll, own these flats and I am the beneficial owner of these companies, working under a trust held by my sister Maryam Nawaz Sharif," Hussain had said.
To the PTI's public campaign, the PML-N leader Talal Chaudhry said the PTI leaders start addressing public rallies when they see that they are losing their case in the Supreme Court.