“Mera tohfa, meri marzi (my present, my selection),” Geo Information Pakistan quoted Khan — the primary Pakistani prime minister to be ousted by way of a no-confidence movement — as saying throughout a casual dialog.
The cricketer-turned-politician, in a response to allegations levelled by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said that his rival occasion’s allegations relating to promoting presents from Toshakhana have been baseless as no matter he “purchased from Toshakhana is on report and if anybody has an proof relating to corruption, he ought to come ahead”.
“I thank God, that in three years (of rule), all they have in opposition to me is that this Toshakhana present scandal, which is already on report,” ARY Information Pakistan quoted Khan as saying.
“I deposited a present despatched by a president at my residence. No matter I took from Toshakana is on report. I bought the presents after paying 50 per cent of the price,” Khan mentioned.
“Had I wished to earn money, I might have declared my home as a camp workplace however I didn’t,” the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion added.
The lately ousted prime minister maintained that he was effectively inside his proper to purchase these presents in response to regulation and that he in reality modified the principles and made it necessary for officers to pay no less than 50 per cent of the worth of the present which was 25 per cent earlier.
The problem got here to gentle final week when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif mentioned that Khan throughout his tenure bought Toshakhana presents value Rs 140 million in Dubai.
In line with Pakistani media experiences, the previous premier obtained 58 presents value greater than Rs 140 million from the world leaders throughout his three-and-a-half-year stint and retained all of them both by paying a negligible quantity and even with none fee.