He announced to launch a country-wide campaign against corruption and said after a joint investigation team was formed against Nawaz Sharif now it was turn of Zardari to be held accountable.
Following the Panamagate judgement, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation, while ridiculing the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) for celebrating the Supreme Court's verdict.
He said the apex court has rejected the prime minister's claims, and for that reason, Sharif has lost the moral authority to stay in power.
After the verdict, a minister in Sharif's cabinet declared victory and said that the prime minister's party had been vindicated since when the corruption allegations first surfaced, Sharif had asked for the formation of a commission to conduct investigations and the supreme court had ordered exactly that.
The case surfaced a year ago when The Panama Papers linked the Sharif family to offshore businesses.
The PTI chief said that the Supreme Court had called IG KP after Mashal Khan's murder case and expressed his trust in his investigations.
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Addressing a press conference, LHCBA President Zulfiqar Chaudhry, Secretary Amir Saeed Raan and others presented their demand for the resignation of the prime minister. If the JIT finds further evidence proving the prime minister's guilt, says the judgment, he could be still be ousted from office. The News also focused on the remarks of Khosa who said Sharif should go home.
He accused Zardari of corruption and money laundering.
A five-member bench was split three vote to two in favor of Sharif retaining his position.
The high-profile graft case is about alleged money laundering by Sharif in 1990s when he twice served as the Prime Minister to purchase assets in London that surfaced when Panama papers previous year showed they were managed through offshore companies owned by Sharif's children. They pointed out that two senior judges had ruled that Nawaz was neither Sadiq nor Ameen. Politically motivated cases also tend to backfire on judges in Pakistan; the Panama Papers case appeared set to yield similar results.
Sharif and his family have denied the accusations.
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