Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Muhammad Hanif Abbasi on Saturday submitted additional documents in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to prove his claim that Imran Khan misrepresented his financial details in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

The additional documents submitted in the SC by Abbasi’s counsel Muhammad Akram Sheikh include copies of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s tax returns, asset details provided to the ECP in his nomination papers for the period 2003-2006, sale of London apartment in 2004.

The documents were filed to prove that Khan has neither mentioned his London flat nor the loan he procured from his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith in the statements of assets and liabilities from 2004 onward.

In the record of 2003 to 2006 till 2007, all assets and liabilities which were otherwise admitted by Khan did not mention the flat, the petitioner claimed.

In his petition pending adjudication before the SC, Hanif Abbasi has sought disqualification of PTI chairman Imran Khan and secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen for non-disclosure of assets, ownership of offshore companies as well as the PTI being a foreign-aided party.

Through his additional documents, Abbasi stated that Imran Khan should be disqualified under Article 62 (1) (f) of the Constitution for concealing and misrepresenting his financial details to the ECP.

He said Khan was no more ‘Saidq and Ameen’ (truthful and honest) by concealing and misleading the ECP regarding his financial details.

According to the list of assets and liabilities, the petitioner claimed that the PTI chief had not declared any document which narrated disclosure of major transactions such as sale of his London Draycott Aveneue flat, acquisition of Banigala property, setting up of offshore company Niazi Services Limited, although Khan had in 2002 obtained tax amnesty for Rs 2million as purchase value of his London flat.

A three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, is scheduled to resume hearing on Abbasi’s plea on September 26.

On the last hearing, conducted on September 12, the court had questioned the authenticity of the documents pertaining to the transactions that took place between Imran Khan and Jemima Goldsmith, saying the documents submitted before it so far were photocopies and unverified.

Published in Daily Times, September 24^th 2017.