Dr Arsalan Iftikhar is not going to get it any easier as he is not only on trial in the court, but also outside the court, with some asking him questions that perhaps should be the sole responsibility of the court. Bringing a twist to the whole episode, a private TV channel anchor Kamran Khan has listed 11 questions that he wants to be answered by Chief Justice’s son, Dr Asalan, to prove his innocence as well as to prove that judiciary is independent. Kamran Khan asked these questions in his program the other night. The questions are:-
1. How did you earn Rs 900 million in three to four years through your small business? How did you manage to employ 400 people and how did the business flourish?
2. Do you have any business links with any private companies whose cases are pending with the Supreme Court?
3. Are your business activities confined to Pakistan and all your foreign trips were of non business nature?
4. Do your companies have any direct or indirect link with Bahria Town as all Bahria Town cases are under trial in higher courts?
5. Did you take any help from ISI officer or officers to solve personal business problems?
6. Prove that while staying with your family in London Flat No 63 at Fits Harding House in 2010 all expenditures were paid from your own account?
7. Prove that expenditures for your trip to Monte Carlo in 2010, where you spent four days at the lavish Hotel De Paris, were paid from your own pocket? Also disclose the identity of the woman who accompanied you during the trip?
8. Did you pay the bill from your account during your 9-day stay in Hotel Hilton in London in 2011?
9. Prove that expenditures of your entire family’s stay for one month in London Marriott Hotel Park Lane’s Suite in 2011 were paid by you?
10. Is it true that there is no mention of your overseas trips in the Income Tax Return filed by you?
11. Is it true that despite not being a Civil Servant, you travel on blue official passport?
The anchorperson has requested the CJ’s son to give a written response to the 11 questions to satisfy the public.
11 questions put forward to Arsalan Iftikhar
