ISLAMABAD: The five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa resumed hearing the petitions earlier today seeking declaring Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ineligible to hold the position over revelations made in Panama papers.
The counsel of one of the petitioner Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Naeem Bukhari continued arguing his side of the case from where it was left off yesterday. When Bukhari argued that in no statement of prime minister the Qatari letter and funds transferred from Dubai are being mention Justice Gulzar remarked that the letter of Qatari prince looks like some man’s memoirs while Justice Azmat Saeed said that “we have noted that there is no record of transfer of money and now it should be informed that how investment was made in Qatar but assets were made in London.
Meanwhile, prime minister’s counsel Makhdoom Ali Khan has submitted replies about the questions asked by the court during yesterday’s hearing. According to replies Nawaz sharif served as finance minister Punjab from April 1981 to February 1985 and served as chief minister of the province from April 1985 to May 1988.
The reply submitted further inform that he served as interim chief minister from May 1988 to December 1988 and once again served as chief minister from December 1988 to August 1990. Nawaz Sharif later served as prime minister from November 1990 to April 1993 and resigned from National Assembly in July 1991. served as leader of opposition from October 1993 to November 1996 and became prime minister for the second time from February 1997 to October 1999 until his government was cut short after martial law.
Nawaz Sharif, the reply submitted says, was sent in exile in December 2000 from which he returned back to the country in November 2007 and got elected prime minister for the third time on June 5, 2013.
