*ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif while assailingtelevangelist and religious scholar Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain’s joining thePakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) said the latter previously wanted to joinhis party. *

During his interaction with journalists inside the accountability courthearing corruption cases against him and members of his family, Sharif saidthe Imran Khan-led PTI had come into existence for the people like Hussain.

“Amir Liaquat had previously wanted to join the PML-N,” he claimed.

Commenting on the graft cases, the PML-N supreme leader asked why theNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed supplementary references when itcouldn’t find anything incriminating enough to prove him guilty in theprevious references.