Disqualification: SC issues notices to Imran, Tareen

The notices were issued on the basis of concealment of sources of income tax returns

ISLAMABAD: The top court issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and Secretary General Jehangir Khan Tareen on Monday over a petition seeking their disqualification as National Assembly members on the basis of concealment of sources of income tax returns



A two-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, rejected Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi’s plea to club it with the main case of the Panama leaks. However, the court issued notices to the respondents.

Advocate Akram Sheikh, representing the PML-N leader, said he wanted to cross-examine Imran Khan as he was not a ‘clean’ man. Citing a verse from the Bible he said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”



He argued that there was an impression of the court’s tilt towards Imran but quickly added that in order to maintain the prestige of the court, SC should also take note of Imran’s off-shore companies.

“Equity is equality and equality is equity,” he stressed. The next hearing will be held on November 15.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 8^th, 2016.