The information minister alleged that if there was one family that had marked the beginning of modern-day corruption in Pakistan, it was the Sharif family.
Chaudhry claimed that starting towards the end of 1988 up until the beginning of 1990, the Sharifs had accumulated a lot of wealth and were in a conundrum about "how to manage it and turn it white to use within Pakistan or anywhere else."
"Therefore, in 1992, the Economic Reforms Act was introduced, which had an apparently innocent provision which entailed that the source of money coming from abroad will not be questioned by the authorities," he said.
