HARIPUR: PTI chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said he was confident that the Supreme Court would clear him in the disqualification case as he wasn`t a corrupt man.

He was talking to reporters during a visit to the site of Bhambala Stupa near Khanpur here.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had reserved judgement on a set of petitions seeking Imran Khan`s disqualification for having an offshore company, not disclosing assets and receiving foreign funds for the party.

`I will return successful from the Supreme Court as my hands are clean. I have never been part ofany government or held any public office and therefore, one cannot accuse me of doing anything wrong or committing corruption,` he said.

Without naming former prime minister and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, Mr Imran said the Supreme Court had disqualined one of the `thieves`, while the turn of others to face accountability was around the corner.

He was accompanied by provincial Assembly`s Speaker Asad Qaisar, PTI central leader Naeemul Haq, provincial ministers and Sri Lankan, Chinese, Thai and Korean ambassadors.

Earlier, the PTI chiefvisited the Buddhist site, where officials of the archaeology department briefed him and other visitors about the history, discovery and preservation work of the Bhamala stupa.

He said the region had the potential to become a major tourist resort and thus, contributing huge sums of money to exchequer.

Mr Imran said the provincial government was working on ways and means to increase resources by developing and promoting `archaeological tourism` for which four recently-discovered historical sites would be developed before being opened to tourists every year.

`Our (PTI) government has tried to address environmental pollution by increasing forest cover with the help of the Tsunami billion tree plantation project,` he said, adding that the government had planted one billion trees across the province.

In 2015, archaeologists had discovered the largest statue from the Gandhara civilisation.

Located seven kilometers eastward on the left bank of Khanpur dam, the Bhamala Stupa depicted the death of Buddha.

According to Prof Shakirullah Khan, head of the archaeology department of Hazara University, the discovery, the first of its kind in Pakistan, was made during excavation at the Buddhist stupa and monastery dating back to 4th century AD.

He said the statue showing the death of Buddha was 14 meters long.