Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he has “nothing to do” with theBroadsheet issue and the agreement was made by former president PervezMusharraf.

His remarks came in a television interview which was aired on Friday.

Referring to the Broadsheet agreement, the prime minister said that theasset recovery firm found Nawaz Sharif’s assets worth $800 million “and acourt declared that assets of $100 million really were owned by the formerprime minister”.

He said that the government was bound under the agreement, to pay the firmand if they did not pay, a day’s interest would have amounted to 5,000pounds.

The prime minister termed the foreign funding case against the PTI as oneborn out of malafide intent and said that he trusts the Election Commissionscrutiny committee probing the matter.

Speaking of the increased power tariff, he said that it was done “so thatthe country does not fall further into debt”.

A day earlier, the government named retired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed asthe head of the committee probing the Broadsheet case and gave him theauthority to add whomever he wants to the committee.

The Opposition parties have voiced major reservations against the move,owing to Saeed’s past appointments.