{"id":5690,"date":"2016-10-05T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:20:54","slug":"nawaz-sharif-quit-says-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5690","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif should quit, says Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;But I want to ask how any politician with a moral compass can accept a PM who has been caught money laundering in Panama Papers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div>Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must quit over charges of money laundering.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The cricketer-turned-politician justified the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf&#8217;s (PTI) decision to boycott a joint session of Parliament to discuss the Kashmir issue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Nothing new will be achieved that was not achieved with PTI&#8217;s active participation&#8221; earlier, Khan tweeted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;But I want to ask how any politician with a moral compass can accept a PM who has been caught money laundering in Panama Papers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Mian Panama Sharif has been caught money laundering, tax evading and hiding of assets, thereby losing all moral legitimacy to be Prime Minister,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Khan said Sharif had only two options now: either to present himself for accountability or to resign like the Prime Minister of Iceland did.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He cannot seek shelter behind (the) Indian aggression in Kashmir\/LoC, especially as he failed to respond firmly to it,&#8221; Khan said, referring to the Indian surgical strikes which Pakistan says never happened.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But I want to ask how any politician with a moral compass can accept a PM who has been caught money laundering in Panama Papers. Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must quit over charges of money laundering. The cricketer-turned-politician justified the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf&#8217;s (PTI) decision to boycott a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5690","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\/5690","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=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/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=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}