Hussain Nawaz challenges govt to trace Sharifs’ alleged $1 billion

Hussain Nawaz, son of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has challenged that the government can keep 90 per cent of the amount if it can trace the $1 billion allegedly stashed by the Sharif family in offshore accounts.

According to Geo News, Hussain Nawaz said that claims made by the government that Sharifs have stashed $1bn in foreign accounts are propaganda against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and his family.

Speaking about the Broadsheet scandal, Hussain said that the government of Pakistan had to pay $60 million to the asset recovery firm in a bid to implicate the Sharifs in corruption cases.

Hussain said the judgement authored by Sir Anthony Evans had stated that the London asset recovery firm hired Matrix Research Limited to investigate assets of Nawaz and eight members of the Sharif family for a year soon after NAB signed a contract with Broadsheet LLC but it did not find anything illegal.

The former premier’s son said foreign governments don’t believe in the “lies” told on Pakistani media about Nawaz and his family. He further said that ex-PM Nawaz was disqualified as the prime minister of Pakistan on the account of “not taking a salary from his son”.

Nawaz had left for London for a medical check-up last year after his health deteriorated in jail. The ex-premier, who was convicted in two graft cases, has refused to return since. The government also decided to cancel his passport on Feb 16 in a bid to bring him back.