Plea in SC: PTI finally decides to seek PM’s disqualification

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has finally decided to approach the Supreme Court, seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in view of the revelation of Panama Papers.

The PTI legal team’s head Hamid Khan confirmed to The Express Tribune that initial draft of the petition has already been prepared, but they would file it next week.

Advocate General K-P Latif Yousafzai, Ahmad Awais, Naeem Bukhari, Latif Yousafzai, Ali Khan and Salman Afridi are also the members of the PTI’s legal committee.

PTI’s central leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani  said: “I don’t think the Supreme Court will deviate from its earlier judgments, wherein it disqualified the parliamentarians including ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 29^th, 2016.