Supermodel Ayyan Ali has flatly refused to meet her father while a banking court on Monday extended her judicial remand till May 28, 2015, after the prosecution refused to argue her bail application filed in the previous hearing.
The court heard two applications, one filed by Ayyan’s counsel requesting bail and the other by the customs’ investigation team to register a money laundering case against her.
Defence lawyer Khurram Latif Khosa requested the court to allow him to argue over her bail application which the prosecution refused to take up, saying they were not ‘prepared’.
The court, headed by Judge Sabir Sultan, ordered the prosecution to prepare their arguments and adjourned the case until May 28, 2015.
Just last month, investigators probing money laundering charges against the supermodel submitted an interim charge-sheet in court and included two new suspects for interrogation.
After the hearing Ayyan’s father Raja Hafeez tried to meet her in court premises but she refused and told her lawyers that she will not meet a man who left her and her mother alone five years ago.
On the other hand, talking to media Raja Hafeez said that he wants to meet his daughter but the police is not allowing him. He said that he will expose the whole truth after meeting Ayyan. He said that he has no enmity with anyone adding that he has family terms with Benazir Bhutto’s family and his links should not only be limited to Asif Ali Zardari alone.
Ayyan was arrested by customs officials on March 14, 2015 from the Islamabad airport after over $500,000 cash was found in her baggage. The Lahore High Court had rejected the model’s bail application on March 31, 2015.
