Nation still awaits Shehbaz's reply to 18 questions on money laundering: Firdous.

Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday said the whole nation was still awaiting the answers of 18 questions put by the government on Shehbaz Sharif's money laundering.

"The nation wants to know the answers of 18 questions about money laundering committed by Shehbaz Sharif through specially hired cash boys from his Model Town residence and office," she said while talking to media persons.

She said that instead of responding to the money laundering allegations, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokespersons were trying to divert public attention by unduly criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government just in the animosity of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The SAPM said the nation wanted to know how Shehbaz Sharif managed to transport abroad the cash from the Model Town residence and office, which was later received by the Sharif family through telegraphic transactions in Pakistan.

Dr Firdous said the PML-N spokespersons wanted to evaluate one-year performance of the PTI government, but they were not talking about those who remained in power generation after generation, plundered the national wealth for decades and put the national economy on ventilator. She said the Sharif family's corruption had been exposed, adding that Shehbaz Sharif gave government employment at the Chief Minister Secretariat to the "cash boys" as facilitators in money laundering. "It is a strange and horrible tale of corruption," she added.

She said the questions would keep haunting Shehbaz Sharif that...