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05-10-2017, 04:20 AM
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SC seeks documents, affidavit from Imran
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to submit documents and an affidavit pertaining to foreign funding case seeking his disqualification.
The SC observed that a certificate pertaining to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) funds could **t be declared as fake unless it was proved that these funds were taken from prohibited sources. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, heard PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi’s petition seeking disqualification of PTI chief Imran Khan and Secretary General Jehangir Tareen over their alleged tax evasion. During the course of hearing, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar observed that the petitioner had raised objections having five clauses against the PTI chief, including taking funds from prohibited sources, Niazi Services Limited (NSL) was **t declared by Imran Khan in his assets, the third was the dubious money transaction from Pakistan to London, and the fourth was that there was ** money trail of the loan that was given back to cricketer-turned-politician’s ex-wife Jemima. The CJ observed that party funding was the most prominent hence he said that unless it was proved that the PTI took funds from the prohibited sources, its certificate regarding funds could **t be declared as fake. Justice Umar Ata Bandial, a**ther member of the bench, observed if the court gave its decision on the funds received from the prohibited sources, it would result in banning the political party. The court directed PTI Chairman Imran Khan to submit an affidavit along with his response in the case relating to his offshore companies after lawyer Akram Sheikh, representing Hanif Abbasi, requested the court to disqualify Imran Khan from the National Assembly. At one point, the CJ asked Muhammad Akram Sheikh whether he wanted that Imran Khan be disqualified on the decision of the mi**rity -- in a pointed reference to the Panama case verdict. Akram Sheikh, however, replied that only majority decision of the court was counted adding that this case was, however, separate from the Panama case. He said that Panama case was about the sitting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and this case was about the prime minister-in-waiting. Akram Sheikh, however, submitted that Imran Khan mentioned the Banigala property title of Jemima Khan neither in **mination papers of 2002 **r described about details of the loans he received from Jemima Khan. To which Justice Umar Atta Bandial observed transaction of loans between wife and husband was a privileged communication, which had **thing to do with declarations. Seeking Imran Khan’ disqualification from the membership of parliament, Akram Sheikh contended that it was a settled law whenever misstatement was proved, it provided grounds for disqualification. Meanwhile, Naeem Bukhari, representing Imran Khan, submitted before the court that all documents relevant to the case had been submitted to the court, adding that he would submit the affidavit of his client today (Wednesday). أكثر... 
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