{"id":51459,"date":"2022-05-28T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/pakistan-pm-shehbaz-sharif-calls-himself-a-majnoo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:40:15","slug":"pakistan-pm-shehbaz-sharif-calls-himself-a-majnoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51459","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif calls himself a \u2018majnoo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, May 28:<\/em><\/strong> Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called himself a \u2018majnoo\u2019 as he, along with his son, Punjab chief minister Hamza Shehbaz, testified in a special court hearing in connection with a PKR 16 billion (2.6 PKR=1 INR) money laundering case against him and his sons, Hamza and Suleman, the latter of whom resides in the UK, hindustan times reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have not taken anything from the government in 12.5 years. As chief minister, I used to get the government car refuelled from my own pocket,\u201d the PML-N leader, who served three stints as Punjab CM, said, according to Dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 70-year-old further said, \u201cGod has made me the prime minister of this country. I am a majnoo, and I did not take my legal right, my salary and benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Majnoo\u2019 is an Urdu word that means an insane or foolish person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharif, meanwhile, further remarked that due to his various decisions, his family lost around PKR 2 billion, adding that this was a \u2018reality.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arguing for the Sharifs, their counsel said the money laundering case against his clients, filed in November 2020 during the premiership of Imran Khan, was \u2018politically motivated.\u2019 The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) booked the father and sons under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Anti-Money Laundering Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its investigation, the FIA detected 28 benami accounts, allegedly belonging to the family. Through these accounts, an amount of PKR 16.3 billion was laundered from 2008 to 2018, the federal agency claimed. Kept in \u2018hidden accounts,\u2019 the money was given to Shehbaz in his \u2018personal\u2019 capacity, it also charged. With PTI inputs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 28: Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called himself a \u2018majnoo\u2019 as he, along with his son, Punjab chief minister Hamza Shehbaz, testified in a special court hearing in connection with a PKR 16 billion (2.6 PKR=1 INR) money laundering case against him and his sons, Hamza and Suleman, the latter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}