Imran says has no hope in local courts, decides to move UK, UaE courts.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday announced that he would approach the local and international courts against Geo/Jang Group and Dubai-based businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor for his 'character assassination' since he had 'no hope in Pakistan's justice system.' In his video address on Wednesday, Imran Khan alleged that the PML-N, Jang Group and Geo were in cahoots in conspiring and starting campaigns against him such as the foreign funding and Toshakhana references. 'Yesterday, this combination of the PML-N and Geo brought a 'fraud' whose prior history was quickly exposed by social media,' Imran said. 'They brought that fraud and did a whole programme where he said Imran Khan's watch was sold at such a high price ... and they did a whole propaganda campaign [against me].' Imran said he did not have any hope of justice from Pakistan's legal system and had therefore decided to file a case in London against Geo Group and it would be made to answer for his character assassination. 'I will pursue a case against this person, this fraud, in Dubai, and I will file a case against Geo in Dubai and Pakistan. I have decided that now we will take them to court because we will prove that Geo Group's method in the country is propaganda - its purpose is not freedom of journalism but it uses its media group for an agenda. 'This person they used and the programme they did [...] if they did journalism with integrity then they'd have known he was a fraud [...] he has no credibility and they wouldn't have ever used such a witness,' the PTI chief said. Imran also said that he had prior experience with the UK courts and that is why he would be pursuing a case there. 'Enough is enough. Yesterday Geo and Khanzada supported by Handlers slandered me through a baseless story cooked up by a known fraudster and internationally wanted criminal. I have spoken to my lawyers and I plan to sue Geo, Khanzada and the fraudster not only in Pak but also in UK and UAE.' A day earlier, Zahoor during an interview on Geo News claimed that the PTI government had sold an expensive Graff wristwatch - gifted to Imran by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman only for $2 million, worth approximately Rs280m at the time of sale in 2019. The case being dubbed here as 'Toshakhana case' involving the sale of state gifts received by Imran became a major sticking point in national politics after the Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified the PTI chief for...