Pakistan former premier Imran Khan has been accused of being the biggest liar on the face of the earth by current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, alleging that the PTI chief has ruined the country's economy.
In an interview with the UK newspaper The Guardian, Shehbaz Sharif spoke about the "damage" that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman had done to the country's domestic and foreign affairs, reports NDTV.
Addressing Imran Khan's recent alleged cypher audio leaks, Shehbaz Sharif said that they were "an irrefutable endorsement that he (Imran) is the biggest liar on the face of the earth".
The cypher is an alleged secret diplomatic cable which fuelled conspiracy theories that the US administration wanted to topple Imran's government and facilitate regime change in the country.
The cypher is based on then-envoy Asad Majeed's meeting with US State Department official Donald Lu, who has been at the centre of PTI's claim that the US conspired to dislodge Imran from office in April.
"I'm not saying this with a sense of glee but a sense of embarrassment and concern. My country's image has been damaged hugely by these lies told out of mean personal interest," Sharif added in the interview to the British newspaper.
He accused Imran Khan of "injecting poison into society to dangerously polarise the electorate'" since his ouster through a successful no-confidence vote in April.
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