ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftakhar Mohammed Chaudhry refused to accept Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director General (DG) Sardar Akhtar Hassan Gorchani’s reply regarding the IB secret funds case, commenting that unacceptable language was used in the reply, Express News reported on Wednesday.
The incumbent Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government allegedly withdrew Rs270 million from the secret fund of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for pushing its political agenda in Punjab.
On January 2, the Supreme Court had directed DG IB to come in person and explain the misuse of IB’s secret funds.
The court had issued the direction following the testimonies of two former IB chiefs who confirmed that the amount was indeed withdrawn from the agency’s fund but maintained it was not used against the Punjab government.
The DG IB Akhtar Gorchani consulted various legal experts, before the hearing, to craft the government’s response but failed to satisfy the Supreme Court. The SC again ordered DG IB to come up with a detailed answer detailing where the funds withdrawn from the agency’s secret fund were used, if not for toppling the Punjab government in 2009.
The Supreme Court received Gorchani's reply on February 27. The attorney general submitted DG IB’s statement in the hearing but the court refused to accept it on the premise that the language used in the statement was unacceptable.
The case was adjourned till February 28.
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The Punjab Government is lucky, the Supreme Court as usual, has come to its aid.
@Mirza
Any comment on your beloved PPP withdrawing 270 million from the secret fund? The poor and hapless tax payers are there to sustain secret funds for these devils that you euphemistically call politicians, right?
" the court refused to accept it on the premise that the language used in the statement was unacceptable." Like the Swiss letter why does the SC not write the answers of all the parties to its satisfaction? The court should continue to prosecute, testify and judge the cases at the same time!
Who is going to question the details the fund utilized by SC.....????
No contempt of court here - eh?