Imran Khan to file defamation case against Pakistan's NAB chief

On Friday, Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaaf PTI chief and former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he has decided to file a defamation case against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman. Khan added that he also served a legal notice to NAB chairman in a recent tweet.

Imran Khan also claimed that his arrest warrant was issued on a public holiday and kept in secrecy for 8 days. He also said that he was not informed about the Al-Qaida trust case being converted into an investigation.

Imran Khan also wrote that the conditions set out in section 24 of the NAB Ordinance were disregarded. The Supreme Court ruled that my arrest warrant was unconstitutional and that my execution was inadmissible. To execute Arrest Warrant, Pakistan Rangers was used which subjected me to brute force. He alleged that the reason behind these actions was to defame him by arresting him from Islamabad High Court and show the world that he was arrested on corruption charges. He added that he collects PKR 10 billion annually in charity and that his credibility has never been questioned.

Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, has said he will develop a project to offer a quality education in the Sohawa Tehsil area of Punjab's Jhelum district. As per media reports, Khan, his third wife Bushra Bibi, and close aides including Zulfiqar Bukhari and Babar Awan participated in the project.

Imran Khan created the Al-Qadir University Project Trust, wherein Bushra Bibi, Zulfiqar Bukhari, and Babar Awan were office bearers. The trust's office address has been mentioned on documents as Bani Gala House, Islamabad. In 2019, Bushra Bibi signed a memorandum with Bahria Town, a private real estate firm, to receive donations. The trust secured land measuring 458 kanals, 4 marlas and 58 square feet from Bahria Town.

Pakistan's Interior Minister, equivalent to Indian Home Minister Rana Sanaullah, claimed out of the 458 kanals of land, but Imran Khan fixed 240 kanals of the donated land in the name of Bushra Bibi's close friend Farah Gogi. The value of the land was underestimated, Sanaullah said, and Khan received his share in the name of the University. The Pakistani parliament also said Khan tried to suppress the matter.

Pakistan's former Minister of Finance Miftah Ismail also said in a tweet that Imran Khan had given around 190 million pounds to Malik Riaz, a real estate tycoon. Riaz had to give away this amount of money to British authorities to settle a probe into his money. The Pakistani real estate tycoon also donated thousands of acres of land to a trust, with members consisting of Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi, and Farah Gogi.

The trust got millions in the name of a under-construction institute named Al-Qadir University, inaugurated by Khan in May 2019. Imran Khan is the chairman of Al-Qadir University.