Alleged foreign assets: hearing of plea against elite put off for further arguments

The Lahore High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing till December 19 for further arguments the petition against alleged foreign assets maintained by the incumbent and former rulers, their families and others. Earlier, petitioner barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree stated that the respondents/individuals transferred at least 400 billion dollars to foreign countries through money laundering.
He said they caused a huge loss to national exchequer, adding that politicians had not yet submitted their affidavits about the money laundering despite repeated court orders. He pleaded that Pakistan would have no need to obtain foreign loans if their assets were brought back to return the international loan of the country.
He asked the court to issue directions to those politicians to bring back their assets to Pakistan. The respondents include incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, son Hussain Nawaz, and brother Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, PTI Chief Imran Khan and his former wife Jemima, former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his wife, former president Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Faryal Talpur, former president General Pervez Musharraf (Retd), Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, former interior minister Rehman Malik, PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat, Pervez Elahi, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town, former chief justices of LHC Khwaja Muhammad Sharif and Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, former presidents of SCBA Hamid Khan, Asma Jehangir, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and his wife.