Shehbaz Sharif says will quit politics if Imran’s bribe claim proven true

Punjab CM says he will challenge the PTI's allegations in court

SARGODHA: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif asserted on Saturday that if Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan's claim that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had offered him Rs10 billion to back down in the Panamagate case was proven to be true, he would quit politics.

"I will challenge the PTI's allegations in court and if it is found that even a rupee was offered to Imran Khan, I will resign and leave politics forever," he said at a ceremony at the University of Sargodha.



Khan had claimed on April 25 that the PML-N government had offered him Rs10 billion to stay silent on the Panama Papers case.

Sharif said he was committed to serving the people of Pakistan but a few political rivals wanted to create hurdles in the development of the country using unethical tactics.

"Imran Khan has been criticising me for making roads and running Metro Buses and now he has accused me of bribing him,” he added.

The PTI chairman has long been accusing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shehbaz Sharif – the top two faces of the ruling PML-N – of involvement in corruption .



Speaking at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar on Monday, Khan had claimed that if the PML-N government could offer him such a huge amount of money, one could only imagine what it could have offered to the authorities investigating the Panamagate case.

Later on Friday, the PTI chief said at a rally in Islamabad that he would reveal the names of the people who had offered him Rs10 billion on behalf of the Sharif family in court.