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Anti-SC propaganda belied as PPP not to open Sharif cases
The startling statement of the NAB chairman that he will not reopen corruption references against the Sharif brothers has clarified the position that it was the PPP government-controlled NAB, not the judiciary, which was sitting on the corruption references against Nawaz Sharif and his other family members.
While the PPP media team and ruling partys sympathisers in the print and electronic media have been constantly using the pending corruption cases against the Sharifs as an allegation to malign and defame the judiciary, The News had already reported on October 11, 2011 that President Zardari had ordered to drop all cases against the Sharifs.
NAB chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari stated on Saturday that NAB is reviewing the references put forward by Rehman Malik against the Sharif brothers. As the election is near, political cases will not be reopened against anyone including the Sharif brothers for the time being, Fasih added.
The PPPs media cell and its members in media have been constantly attacking the Supreme Court and its judges for not proceeding in the cases against the Sharifs by hiding the basic fact from the people that there is not a single NAB corruption case against Sharifs pending before the apex court.
While attacking the superior judiciary and spitting venom against the judges in a reaction to the Supreme Courts repeated judgements against the NRO and in other corruption cases, these members of the PPP media team never explained that the corruption references against the Sharifs were pending before the accountability courts and could only be reopened if the NAB chairman requests the accountability courts in writing.
Not only the present chairman but even the old chairman, a known PPP jiyala Syed Deedar Hussain Shah, never wrote to the accountability court the Rawalpindi where these cases were adjourned sine die during the Musharraf regime.
In 2010, Accountability Court Judge Wamik Javed was approached by a prosecutor of NAB to reopen the references against the Sharif family but the court dismissed the petitions and ruled that the accountability court was not empowered to do so unless such a request was made by the NAB chairman under his own signatures.
The basic thing, according to former prosecutor generals of NAB is that the PPP government has fears of consequences of mega corruption references against its own top leadership and basically want to adopt you scratch my back, I will scratch yours policy.
In fact President Zardari and Law Minister Farooq H Naek (in his previous term as a law minister) had taken briefings from NAB officials on all corruption references and inquiries but never issued ordered to initiate proceedings on these cases for the reasons best known to them.
It may be recalled that three references were filed against the Sharif brothers and other family members during the rule of former President Pervez Musharraf. These references were adjourned sine die during Musharrafs regime after the Sharif family was deported to Saudi Arabia.
In one corruption reference - State Vs Hudaibia Paper Mills (Pvt) Ltd - nine members of the Sharif family were accused of committing an alleged corruption of Rs642.743 million. As per the NAB allegations, the accused deposited the ill gotten money in the accounts opened in other persons names and used the money from these accounts to pay off loans of the Sharif companies.
Mian Muhammad Sharif, Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Abbas Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Shamim Akhtar (mother of Nawaz Sharif), Sabiha Abbas, Maryam Safdar and former federal minister Ishaq Dar were the accused in this reference.
The second corruption reference under the title of State Vs Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif etc is about the Raiwind assets. The main allegation in this reference is that the accused had acquired vast tracts of land on which a number of palatial houses and mansions were constructed with pecuniary resources, which appeared to be grossly disproportionate to their known sources of income. As per NAB allegations, there involves an amount Rs247.352 million that is under question. Apart from Nawaz Sharif, his mother was also an accused in this case.
In the third corruption reference under the title of State Vs Ittefaq Foundries etc, Nawaz Sharif, his brother Abbas Sharif and Kamal Qureshi were allegedly involved in a bank default case.
The main allegation against the accused in this case was that Ittefaq Foundries Ltd obtained cash finance from the National Bank of Pakistan. As per the NAB allegations, the company wilfully defaulted in 1994.
All these references were either filed or investigated in 1999-2000 by the accountability court in Attock. The cases, later, were shifted to Rawalpindi after the establishment of accountability courts in Rawalpindi. These cases were adjourned sine die after the Sharif family went to Saudi Arabia.
In addition to these cases, a case of bank default against the Sharifs is pending with the Lahore High Court where the Sharifs with the agreement of the bank had offered their mortgaged assets to be sold to repay the default amount. However, it is not being done as a family dispute has erupted between the Sharifs over the property already offered for sale.
In another case - helicopter reference - filed against Nawaz Sharif, he has already been acquitted by the LHC. The accountability court during Musharrafs dictatorial rule had sentenced Nawaz Sharif to 14-year imprisonment and fined him Rs20 million in the helicopter reference eight years ago.
The LHC Rawalpindi division bench of Justice Tariq Shamim and Justice Saeed Ijaz, however, declared the accountability court verdict null and void.
ahmad noorani @theNews
The startling statement of the NAB chairman that he will not reopen corruption references against the Sharif brothers has clarified the position that it was the PPP government-controlled NAB, not the judiciary, which was sitting on the corruption references against Nawaz Sharif and his other family members.
While the PPP media team and ruling partys sympathisers in the print and electronic media have been constantly using the pending corruption cases against the Sharifs as an allegation to malign and defame the judiciary, The News had already reported on October 11, 2011 that President Zardari had ordered to drop all cases against the Sharifs.
NAB chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari stated on Saturday that NAB is reviewing the references put forward by Rehman Malik against the Sharif brothers. As the election is near, political cases will not be reopened against anyone including the Sharif brothers for the time being, Fasih added.
The PPPs media cell and its members in media have been constantly attacking the Supreme Court and its judges for not proceeding in the cases against the Sharifs by hiding the basic fact from the people that there is not a single NAB corruption case against Sharifs pending before the apex court.
While attacking the superior judiciary and spitting venom against the judges in a reaction to the Supreme Courts repeated judgements against the NRO and in other corruption cases, these members of the PPP media team never explained that the corruption references against the Sharifs were pending before the accountability courts and could only be reopened if the NAB chairman requests the accountability courts in writing.
Not only the present chairman but even the old chairman, a known PPP jiyala Syed Deedar Hussain Shah, never wrote to the accountability court the Rawalpindi where these cases were adjourned sine die during the Musharraf regime.
In 2010, Accountability Court Judge Wamik Javed was approached by a prosecutor of NAB to reopen the references against the Sharif family but the court dismissed the petitions and ruled that the accountability court was not empowered to do so unless such a request was made by the NAB chairman under his own signatures.
The basic thing, according to former prosecutor generals of NAB is that the PPP government has fears of consequences of mega corruption references against its own top leadership and basically want to adopt you scratch my back, I will scratch yours policy.
In fact President Zardari and Law Minister Farooq H Naek (in his previous term as a law minister) had taken briefings from NAB officials on all corruption references and inquiries but never issued ordered to initiate proceedings on these cases for the reasons best known to them.
It may be recalled that three references were filed against the Sharif brothers and other family members during the rule of former President Pervez Musharraf. These references were adjourned sine die during Musharrafs regime after the Sharif family was deported to Saudi Arabia.
In one corruption reference - State Vs Hudaibia Paper Mills (Pvt) Ltd - nine members of the Sharif family were accused of committing an alleged corruption of Rs642.743 million. As per the NAB allegations, the accused deposited the ill gotten money in the accounts opened in other persons names and used the money from these accounts to pay off loans of the Sharif companies.
Mian Muhammad Sharif, Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Abbas Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Shamim Akhtar (mother of Nawaz Sharif), Sabiha Abbas, Maryam Safdar and former federal minister Ishaq Dar were the accused in this reference.
The second corruption reference under the title of State Vs Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif etc is about the Raiwind assets. The main allegation in this reference is that the accused had acquired vast tracts of land on which a number of palatial houses and mansions were constructed with pecuniary resources, which appeared to be grossly disproportionate to their known sources of income. As per NAB allegations, there involves an amount Rs247.352 million that is under question. Apart from Nawaz Sharif, his mother was also an accused in this case.
In the third corruption reference under the title of State Vs Ittefaq Foundries etc, Nawaz Sharif, his brother Abbas Sharif and Kamal Qureshi were allegedly involved in a bank default case.
The main allegation against the accused in this case was that Ittefaq Foundries Ltd obtained cash finance from the National Bank of Pakistan. As per the NAB allegations, the company wilfully defaulted in 1994.
All these references were either filed or investigated in 1999-2000 by the accountability court in Attock. The cases, later, were shifted to Rawalpindi after the establishment of accountability courts in Rawalpindi. These cases were adjourned sine die after the Sharif family went to Saudi Arabia.
In addition to these cases, a case of bank default against the Sharifs is pending with the Lahore High Court where the Sharifs with the agreement of the bank had offered their mortgaged assets to be sold to repay the default amount. However, it is not being done as a family dispute has erupted between the Sharifs over the property already offered for sale.
In another case - helicopter reference - filed against Nawaz Sharif, he has already been acquitted by the LHC. The accountability court during Musharrafs dictatorial rule had sentenced Nawaz Sharif to 14-year imprisonment and fined him Rs20 million in the helicopter reference eight years ago.
The LHC Rawalpindi division bench of Justice Tariq Shamim and Justice Saeed Ijaz, however, declared the accountability court verdict null and void.
ahmad noorani @theNews
