PTI submits short story from Khawateen Digest as evidence in Panamagate hearing

Despite the Supreme Court’s scolding the legal team of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf for submitting documents that were irrelevant and in no way admissible evidence in relation to the Panama Case, party leader Imran Khan submitted on Saturday a story from noted Urdu pulp periodical Khawateen Digest.

The submission, titled Woh Ajnabi, told the story of a national politician, who becomes the Punjab chief minister, who ensnares the underconfident-yet-beautiful protagonist Sughra in his web of deceit. Initially, Sughra, a principled young woman from androon Lahore, kept rejecting his advances, but eventually succumbed to his charms. Extremely rich, quite bald and already married, the politician ticked all the boxes in what Sughra had wanted in a husband. After getting married in a clandestine ceremony, Sughra shifts to a house in Gulberg that he has bought her.

Subsequent passages of the story were highlighted for the benefit of the court with a pink marker, where Sughra overhears a conversation between the politician and visiting guests where they speak of buying up property in London with “awaam ka paisa, muhahah!”

Speaking to reporters outside the court, Imran Khan said the proceedings of the court should still go on till their formal conclusion even though they were now just a formality, given the game-changing nature of the new submission.

“If this doesn’t convince the court, I don’t know what will,” he said. “I’m serious. I don’t know what will.”