Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen on Friday expressed his disappointment over the Supreme Court’s verdict disqualifying him from holding public office for life, saying the country’s top court had disqualified him on “mere interpretation of the trust deed”.
Tareen took to Twitter to express his views following the verdict disqualifying him.
“Accusations Rejected by SC
1) Misuse of authority,loan writeoff
2) Insider Trading
3) Misdeclared Agri income
4) London Property Full money trail accepted not hidden, declared in children’s assets since 2011.
And SC disqualifies me on mere interpretation of the trust deed???,” he tweeted.
Accusations Rejected by SC
1) Misuse of authority,loan writeoff
2) Insider Trading
3) Misdeclared Agri income
4) London Property Full money trail accepted not hidden, declared in children’s assets since 2011.
And SC disqualifies me on mere interpretation of the trust deed???
— Jahangir Khan Tareen (@JahangirKTareen) December 15, 2017
The apex court on Friday disqualified Tareen but ruled in favour of PTI Chairman Imran Khan in its judgement on the disqualification case against the two party leaders.
The three-member bench had reserved the verdict in the disqualification petition against the two PTI leaders on November 14.
With regards to Tareen, the judgment stated that the PTI secretary general had pleaded guilty to insider trading.
“Tareen cannot be termed honest and stands disqualified for life as per Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution,” according to the Supreme Court judgement.
Article 62(1)(f) reads: “A person shall not be qualified to be elected or chosen as a member of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) unless-…he is sagacious, righteous and non-profligate, honest and ameen, there being no declaration to the contrary by a court of law.”
Moreover, the court ruled that Tareen used suspicious terms in his statements to the court. Tareen did not declare his offshore company, the court stated.
