Imran Khan given one week by SC to produce financial records
Imran Khan given one week by SC to produce financial records: On Tuesday, 30th, May, 2017 the Supreme Court issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and ordered him to submit relevant details pertaining to Niazi Services Limited before the court. Niazi Services Limited is an off-shore company owned by the PTI chairman.
A three-member bench which comprised of Chief Justice Saqib Nasir, Justice Umar Ata Bindial and Justice Faisal Arab, was hearing a petition which was seeking the disqualification of the PTI chief and Secretary General Jehangir Tareen.
The petition which was filed by the PML-N’s Hanif Abassi had accused the two PTI leaders of not declaring their assets to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) the petition further seeks to unseat them based on their alleged violations of the lncome Tax Ordinance, 1979 and the Peoples Act, 1974.
After the hearing, the bench issued notices to PTI in which the bench ordered the production of verifiable and certified account details before the court within a one-week period.
On the occasion The chief justice, during the proceedings, had reminded the PTI counsel Naeem Bokhari that the petitioners had alleged that Khan’s London flats were owned by Niazi Services.
The chief justice further added “It has also been alleged that the declarations made by Imran Khan regarding the flats are incorrect”
Imran Khan’s defence has been maintaining that Khan had declared the flats under an amnesty scheme, the judge however noted that the amnesty scheme had been meant for Pakistani residents, adding that “Niazi Services is not a Pakistani company.”
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