PML-N discredits UK media report against Shahbaz, his family; calls it `baseless`
(WorldNews Pakistan)

PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, reacting to an article published in UK`s The Mail on Sunday which questions whether Shahbaz Sharif `stole British foreign aid money`, termed the report `baseless` and a `propaganda campaign`. The article, written by investigative journalist David Rose and quoting investigators and a `confidential investigation report`, claims that the money `stolen` by the PML-N president, who was the Punjab chief minister at the time, came from the UK`s Department for International Development (DFID)-funded aid projects. `For years he was feted as a Third World poster boy by Britain´s Department for International Development, which poured more than £500 million of UK...