Lahore High Court has rejected PTI Chief Imran Khan’s petition for disqualification of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif terming it as non-maintainable. In his petition, Imran Khan had pleaded that Shahbaz Sharif be disqualified since he is running his own business and is currently holding public office as an assembly member.
“He has illegally shifted the location of his family’s sugar mills and misused his influence for this purpose,” Awan argued adding that Shahbaz Sharif should be disqualified for exceeding his authority and illegally accumulating assets.
Awan, in the petition, had also pleaded that Shahbaz Sharif had accumulated wealth beyond the known sources of income during his tenures as chief minister and given gifts worth Rs6 billion to his brother, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, over the years.
Awan also claimed that Shahbaz Sharif had been looking after personal business interests while simultaneously holding public office.
LHC’s Justice Shahid Kareem asked the petitioner, why the speaker of the Punjab Assembly had not been moved for Sharif’s disqualification, to which Awan responded that the speaker had been approached but had failed to act since he belonged to the same political party as the Punjab CM.
Therefore, he pleaded to the court that Shahbaz Sharif should be declared as disqualified. After hearing his arguments, Justice Karim reserved the verdict and later dismissed the petition.
