ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday fired a broadside at Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet members for allegedly spending a huge amount on their `flopped` trip to Geneva to attend the donor conference since the moot was held via video link, as no important leader had turned up at the event.

The party`s senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry said France, the host, gave $10 million, but not a single important leader participated in the conference.

He questioned that if the entire conference was to be held through video link, why was there a need to travel to Geneva, according to a statement issued by the party`s central media department.

`The money did not come, but several lakhs of dollars were spent on the visits of the prime minister and his cabinet [members],` he lamented.

Another senior PTI leader, Shireen Mazari, also criticised the government.

In a tweet, the former minister said: `Pathetic attendance and it is in one of the small mtg [meeting] rooms of the UNin Geneva because this is where side mtgs are normally held not main sessions of major conferences`.

She said even `in this small venue attendance only seems to be of Pak officials & only some mbrs [members] of cabal of crooks`.

Lashing out at PML-N, Fawad Chaudhry alleged that lying was integral part of the life of the leadership of the PML-N.

He said 17 bills were passed in the Punjab Assembly on Monday, while PML-N kept running away from the count. If they had the required numbers as Khawaja Asif, Saad Rafique and others were claiming, then they would have stopped the legislation.