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i was asking about the charges themselves. but let me put this to you. it s very difficult for those of us outside of pakistan to adjudicate who is right, who is wrong, who is corrupt, who is in corrupt because everyone in pakistan is accused of each other of corruption and corruption is rampant. you yourself had to resign from the government a few years ago over corruption accusations that i know you denied. your leader, the former prime minister, got arrested for corruption. his predecessor was convicted for corruption. the current prime minister was indicted for money laundering which he was eventually cleared of. isn t ripened bipartisan corruption the real issue here? well it is a real issue and we are the only party in pakistan that has that as their political ethos and our entire party election campaign and imran khan s 27 year old struggle in politics is all anti-corruption.
they can t catch me or another leader they will catch their children or wives for their parents. so this is the kind of fascist treatment we are facing at the moment in pakistan. so, you mentioned, and that sounds awful and i mentioned human rights watch report. let me ask you about the actual charges. you said he s out on bail. the former prime minister is facing some pretty serious corruption charges of receiving land, i believe, worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a real estate tycoon and getting it via charitable trust. look, let me make it clear. there is no land received by imran khan. there was a trust and the trust is still there. corruption is when you receive illegal gains. there is a university there which is teaching around 400 or 450 students on all subjects including islamic spirituality
as far as it goes for imran khan i m not going to bother wasting time on my case. as far as calm goes or anyone in this cabinet. whenever they have been accused or a slight charge they have resigned from the cabinet positions like myself until they got completely cleared and imran khan, given his opposition. despite 150 cases they put on him, every child and every grown-up in pakistan and outside of pakistan knows that imran khan is not corrupt. there is nothing they could put on him, they put hundreds of thousands of terrorism s they view this corruption at the university which has given free education to children, 450 plus of them. as far as it goes for that, when you compare it to the others you have people who have laundered billions of dollars outside of pakistan. their assets have increased tenfold every year. in pakistan.
as i say, it s very clear that there is corruption ran rampant across the board in pakistani politics, sadly. one last quick question for you. what message do you have for the biden administration which hasn t said much about imran khan s plight or his arrest. who, of course, mr. khan accused without any real evidence of being behind his removal from office last year? i would say for president biden s administration or for the rest of the world watching at the moment, and i will repeat the words of imran khan. at the moment, democracy is in an absolute low and we are not demanding anything. imran khan he s being either shot at or expelled from the political landscape. but all we are asking is one single thing for all pakistanis within and without of pakistan and that is transparent free and fair elections. a stable pakistan that a democratic pakistan suits the entire region and the world.