Pakistan court admits petition seeking Nawaz Sharif's disqualification on money laundering charges.
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Lahore:
A petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on money laundering charges has been admitted by a court here for hearing, 23 years after it was filed.
A
Lahore High Court comprising Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice
Abid Aziz Sheikh yesterday admitted the petition after listening the
arguments and requested the chief justice to constitute a five-member
larger bench to hear it. The bench was hearing an application to fix
hearing for the main petition pending since 1991.
Petitioner
Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree told the court that four years had passed
since last hearing on his petition by a five-judge bench was held.
The bench was later dissolved after one of its members refused to hear the case due to personal reasons, he said.
Jafree
pleaded that Nawaz Sharif caused a huge loss to the national exchequer
by sending money abroad through illegal means and the anti-corruption
agencies had turned a blind eye to the complaints in this regard.
"PM
Sharif does not meet the criteria for being a member of the parliament
as prescribed in Articles 62 & 63 of the Constitution, therefore he
should be declared disqualified," he pleaded.
The division bench admitted the plea and referred the case to chief justice with a request to form a five-judge bench.
Finance
Minister Ishaq Dar whose son is married to Nawaz Sharif's daughter had
submitted an affidavit in the court declaring that he laundered Nawaz
Sharif's huge money to Dubai and London through illegal means. He
confessed to his crime after the Nawaz Sharif government was overthrown
by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.
Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf
chairman Imran Khan has also demanded investigation into money
laundering charges against Sharif and his alleged involvement in
receiving money from the ISI to form a grand political alliance against
Benazir Bhutto's PPP in 1990.
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