APROPOS the article `Where`s my `lifafa`?` (Dec 16). The writer, it seems, never tires of criticising Imran Khan for one reason or the other. He states that in Pakistan it is a common practice that guests on TV chat shows to regularly blame politicians for having amassed billions of rupees without offering any proof whatsoever. The writer has also termed Imran Khan a past master at hurling invective andunfounded accusations.
I wonder whether he is oblivious of the fact that Imran was the first politician who raised the issue of corruption when he entered politics in 1996. He repeatedly drew the people`s attention to the ill-gotten wealth amassed abroad by Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari.
When Imran accused them of corruption, neither Nawaz Sharif nor Zardari, dared to take him to court. Rather, initially Benazir andZardarideniedthatSurreyPalace belonged to them and later accepted that it belonged to them.
Similarly, the Sharif family invariably rejected Imran`s accusations that they owned property in England and other parts of the world. The Panama leaks revealed that the Sharifs owned property worth billions abroad.
The point is if Benazir and Zardari andthe Sharif family had legally accumulated wealth outside Pakistan, why did they deny it in the first instance and then in the face of incontrovertible facts accept the reality? Imran has proved that the truth always triumphs.
