ABBOTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan scaled Miranjani peak in Galiat, the highest peak in Abbottabad district and said that he was now ready to conquer corruption in Pakistan from August 7.
Imran tweeted a photo on Monday, in the company of his sons, after scaling the peak and said that he had ‘conquered’ the highest peak of Galiat. He said that now he was ready to spearhead the anti-corruption drive across the country scheduled to begin from August 7.
The PTI chairman had been pressing the opposition’s collective demand of forming an effective judicial commission to probe allegations regarding the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family and their offshore holdings, which emerged following the Panama Papers leak.
Earlier in April, while addressing the gathering on PTI’s Foundation Day, Imran had announced the start of an anti-corruption movement in Sindh. PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi had to later give assurances to Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Khursheed Shah that PTI’s anti-corruption drive was not targeting individuals and was launched in Sindh by chance.
In the run-up to the 20th Foundation Day celebrations, the PTI attempted to garner support from the opposition parties for its plans for a ‘Raiwind March’ protesting the Sharif family’s ownership of offshore companies revealed by the Panama Papers.
However, the PTI was on the back foot when, despite meetings with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership, the opposition party shied away from committing to the march, with sources in the party saying that they would not join hands with the PTI prematurely unless there was an inquiry by the judicial commission and international forensic experts.
Shah Mehmood had met also with PPP leaders Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, Khursheed Shah and Saleem Mandviwalla, but at that time Aitzaz said that the PPP was unable to commit to the PTI as the party had not shared its strategy. He said, “We appreciate them taking us on board, but we can’t make a commitment yet because maybe they have some other strategy in mind.”
