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Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Amjad spent almost an hour with the JIT members and answered their questions. He took no questions from the media on his arrival at the JIT headquarters or while leaving.
Amjad was the NAB’s first chairman and served the bureau during Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s regime from 1999 to 2000.
As NAB chairman, Amjad approved the Hudabiya Paper Mills money-laundering reference against the Sharif family in 2000. The reference was initiated on the basis of a confessional statement from Ishaq Dar, currently the finance minister.
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In his statement, Dar had admitted his role in laundering money to the tune of $14.86 million on behalf of the Sharif family through fictitious accounts.
None from the Sharif family was part of the interim Hudabiya Papers Mills reference signed by Amjad in March 2000.
However, in the final reference – approved by Amjad’s successor Khalid Maqbool – the NAB had named Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif, Abbas Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hamza Shahbaz, Shamim Akhtar, Sabiha Abbas and Maryam Nawaz in the case.
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And as the JIT investigation enters its final stages, it has summoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s three children – Hussain Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz and Maryam Nawaz Safdar – to appear before it respectively on July 3, 4 and 5.
PM’s cousin Tariq Shafi has also been told to appear before the JIT on July 2. Shafi will appear before the JIT for a third time while it will be Hussain’s sixth, Hassan’s third and Maryam’s first appearance before the six-member probe team.
The JIT is directed by the Supreme Court to complete its investigation and submit a report on July 10.
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