The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday summons prosecutors of parties for arguments on the petition regarding getting back the foreign assets of about 64 prominent politicians including PM Nawaz Sharif, CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Javed Hashmi, Sheikh Rashid, Pervez Musharraf, Hamza Sharif, Asima Jehangir and others, getting affidavit from them and adjourned the case by March 8, 2016.
Justice Khalid Mahmood of LHC conducted the hearing of the case.
During the course of the hearing, prosecutor of former President Pervez Musharraf, Major ® Akhter Shah adopted the stance that English written by petitioner was not understandable for me, therefore reply could not be filed and that I, in person wants to submit the reply on behalf of Pervez Musharraf.
“Pervez Musharraf is the common citizen of the country and he did not commit the money laundering. A baseless application has been filed against him”, he added.
The petitioner on this said that if Pervez Musharraf did not commit the money laundering, he should himself submit the affidavit instead of his prosecutor.
The petitioner further said that Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Chaudhry Pervez Ellahi, Imran Khan and other illegally transferred about 400 billion US $ which causes major loss to national exchequer adding that sons of Nawaz Sharif purchased about 149 properties in London while all the politicians including in the petitions have made country economically zero while making assets abroad.
“All the politicians included in the petitions have refused to transfer their money abroad so it is prayed that affidavit should be taken from them in this regard”, the petitioner concluded.