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Imran Khan leads another huge rally in Islamabad

Sunday, 14 August 2016 6:17 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 14 August 2016 10:25 AM ]

Imran Khan (C), the head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf addresses his supporters during an anti-government rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Saturday, August 13, 2016. (Photo by AP)

Pakistani political opposition leader Imran Khan has led a rally of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) movement in the capital, Islamabad.

In the second stage of what is being called by the PTI the Ehtesaab (accountability) rally, Imran Khan told his supporters on Saturday that the governmental National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has to be independent to eradicate corruption.

“We will continue to hold peaceful protests if institutions fail to deliver justice,” he said.

The first Ehtesaab rally had been held in the town of Pabbi on August 7 in the wake of the leak of the so-called Panama Papers, which purportedly revealed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family was involved in fraud and corruption.

“We all together must bring to account the corrupt ruling group at the top of our society, the leader of which is Nawaz Sharif,” Imran Khan told the rally on Saturday. “Until we bring them to account, you will have no future, no country has progressed with a corrupt leader.”

Khan insisted that his anti-government protests would continue until the Sharif administration offers an appropriate response to the corruption allegations.

Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan (C) waves to supporters during the Ehtesaab rally in Peshawar, Pakistan, August 7, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Since early April, millions of confidential documents from the Panamanian Mossack Fonseca law firm have been published, reportedly showing how the company helped rich and powerful clients across the world with shady businesses.

Among the clients were three of PM Sharif’s children, who carried out business transactions that might be judged as activities aimed at money laundering and tax avoidance.

The children initially denied the transactions, but later admitted their links to offshore companies.

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