President Asif Ali Zardari PHOTO: AFP
The revelation was made during the hearing of the NRO implementation case.
The apex court had asked the government to send a letter to the Swiss authorities, requesting to reopen criminal cases against the president.
The government wrote a letter, had it approved by the Supreme Court and sent it to the concerned authorities in Switzerland on November 5, 2012. However, the secretary law had again sent a letter without informing anyone on November 22, 2012.
The attorney general told the court that the ministry of law has also destroyed all the proof related to the second letter.
By sending a second letter to the Swiss authorities, the secretary law made the first letter invalid.
In February this year, Swiss authorities declined to reopen cases against President Zardari in response to the letter sent on November 22 and not the one sent on November 5.
Terming this action on the part of secretary law as contempt of court, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the matter should be investigated.
The government formed a committee to investigate the second letter. Intelligence Bureau head Aftab Sultan and Sami Saeed will be probing the issue and will submit their report to the apex court.
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