LAHORE: Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday ordered to locate the misplaced file of a petition seeking return of alleged foreign assets maintained by 64 people, including ex-PM Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Imran Khan, Javed Hashmi and others.
As the petition came up for hearing on Thursday, the LHC office said that the case file had been misplaced and it could not be recovered. The judge ordered the officials to find it.
Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree had filed the petition seeking return of foreign assets of the respondents. The respondents in the petition included former PM Nawaz Sharif, his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, son Hussain Nawaz, brother Shahbaz Sharif, who is also Punjab chief minister), Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and his ex- wife Jemima Goldsmith, former convicted prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, his wife, former president Asif Ali Zardari his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, former interior minister Rehman Malik, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Ali Khan, former chief minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, former federal ministers Faisal Saleh Hayat, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Javed Hashmi, Maulana Fazalur Rehman, ex-governor Sindh Ishratul Ibad, former governor and chief minister, Punjab Ghulam Mustafa Khar, speaker national assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Farooq Sattar, Jahangir Tareen, finance minister Ishaq Dar, Sheikh Rasheed, Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town, two former chief justices of LHC Khawaja Muhammad Sharif and Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, former presidents of SCBA Hamid Khan, Asma Jahangir, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and his wife Bushra Aitzaz, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Aziz Sethi, former minister Wasim Sajjad, lawyers Sharifuddin Peerzada and Ahmar Bilal Soofi. Respondent Benazir Bhutto had died, so her name was deleted.
PPP senator Barrister Ch Aitzas Ahsan also filed an application to remove his name from the proceedings. He stated that details of his assets were available with the Election Commission of Pakistan and the Federal Board of Revenue.
Published in Daily Times, September 1st 2017.
