The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday returned with objections the petition filed by former army chief Mirza Aslam Beg against the verdict in the Asghar Khan case. The former army chief filed a petition on Wednesday with the apex court to review its ruling in the Asghar Khan case regarding political funding by the spy agency of the country in the run up to 1990 elections. The court turned down Beg’s petition with objections that the number of actual parties of the case had been increased and that the change of counsel was not requested in a proper manner. The objection said the review petition was submitted by Ali Zafar advocate instead of the actual counsel Akram Sheikh. The court also objected to quality of the affidavit and the annexed documents. Beg said in his petition that he was not offered a fair chance to defend himself before the bench; hence, he should be heard at length again. The former army chief stressed, “Whatever I did was at the behest of the supreme commander. And, in case of non-compliance, the disciplinary action might have ensued against him.”
