Pakistan’s Sharif slams ‘slandering’ of his family over wealth

‘Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has lashed out at those behind a probe into the wealth of his family, saying the “slandering” campaign would certainly hurt the country.
“What is happening here is not about corruption allegations against me, it is about slandering the businesses and accounts of my family,” said Sharif on Thursday after attending an interrogation in Islamabad in the office of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), a powerful panel of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, over allegations that his family members used government funds to run off-shore businesses.
The Pakistani premier, who was reading a statement, appeared defiant as he insisted that the probe into his family’s offshore wealth would go nowhere.’
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