A prominent politician of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Hanif Abbasi urged the Supreme Court today (Tuesday) an early hearing of the two petitions in which he seeks disqualification of Tehreek-e-Insaf's chairman Imran Khan and its secretary general Jahangir Tareen for their alleged tax evasion. Abbasi said that the subject of his petitions is a question of general public importance.
He requested the Supreme Court to issue directions for hearing of the titled petitions for March 6 before any available bench. He had alleged that Khan has acquired funds from the prohibited sources to fund the PTI's political activities, including mobilisation of party activists to engage them in civil disobedience and destruction of state property.
He said that when Imran Khan submitted certificates to the Election Commission from 2011 to 2014, he had declared that no funds were obtained from prohibited sources. Abbasi alleged that the PTI chairman wilfully concealed incorporation of an offshore company of which he is owner.
At the same time, according to him, Imran Khan concealed investments made in real estate in Islamabad. He alleged that Imran Khan was involved in evasion of taxes because he didn't declare the sources of his income and expenses and dishonestly concealed assets and prohibited fundings. In his petition against Jahangir Khan Tareen under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, he made the Federal Board of Revenue and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan through their chairmen as respondents.
In it Abbasi said that Tareen misguided the Election Commission and FBR by concealing details of his alleged offshore company, submitting false declaration of assets of his agricultural income while filing tax returns in 2010 and nomination papers in 2013.
Abbasi alleged that Tareen overstated his agriculture income to the FBR and was involved in tax evasion on his agricultural income as he has over-declared his income from agricultural sources, which is an attempt to unlawfully evade income tax.
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