ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court reserved on Tuesday the verdict against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan and Secretary General Jahangir Tareen in the disqualification case.
During the hearing, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar who heads the three-member bench, observed that it should not be expected that the court will give its verdict in the case tomorrow.
He remarked that the bench is looking for the truth, and will have to see if the respondent was dishonest in his dealings.
PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi filed a case against Imran and Tareen seeking their disqualification from Parliament over their alleged non-declaration of assets and ownership of offshore companies.
Presenting his arguments, Abbasi’s counsel Akram Sheikh said Imran changed his stance during the course of hearing 18 times.
The chief justice observed that the benefit of speaking the truth is that one does not have to remember what was said before.
Earlier, responding to arguments by Imran’s counsel, Babar Awan, the chief justice observed that the PTI chief declared his London flat but not the offshore company.
Awan further informed the bench that Imran declared the London flat in 2000 via an amnesty scheme.
Responding to the chief justice’s observation that the offshore company was still not declared, Imran’s counsel contended that his client wasn’t the beneficial owner of the company nor its shareholder which is why it was not declared.
Abbasi had filed the petition in November last year. It accused the PTI leaders of not declaring their assets to the Election Commission of Pakistan and violations of the lncome Tax Ordinance, 1979 and Peoples Act, 1974. It also claimed that the PTI is a ‘foreign-funded’ party.
