Pakistan’s PM says rival Imran Khan is ‘biggest liar on earth’

As economic turmoil continues, Shehbaz Sharif accuses predecessor of leaving the country in ruins

Pakistan's prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has accused the former premier Imran Khan of being the the biggest liar on the face of the earth" and injecting poison into society to dangerously polarise the electorate" after he was toppled from power earlier this year.

Speaking in his first interview from Pakistan since he took over as prime minister in April, Sharif, 70, spoke unsparingly of the damage" that Khan, the former cricket superstar who ruled Pakistan from 2018, had done to the country in both domestic and foreign affairs.