Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) leader Ishaq Khakwani has claimed that former Prime Minister Imran Khan conspired with former Chief Justice Saqib Nisar to disqualify the party’s new patriarch Jahangir Khan Tareen.
In a statement, IPP’s newly appointed spokesperson, Khakwani, said it was not discussing how to proceed against PTI chief Tareen, who was disqualified for life in December 2017. .
Believed to be leaning towards the PTI, Nisar retired as the Chief Justice of Pakistan in 2019.
Can the PTI Chairman deny that there was no help from the former Chief Justice (Nisar)? Khakwani asked.
He criticized Khan for claiming high moral ground and not telling the truth while he was involved.
He said that the PTI chairman will have to answer for his conspiratorial role in the disqualification of Jahangir Tareen.
Tareen parted ways with the PTI after falling out with the party chairman and playing a key role in Punjab politics, making Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Hamza Shahbaz the chief minister of the country’s most populous province. Helped.
However, Hamza was later removed from office and replaced by PTI-backed Pervaiz Elahi.
Tareen’s disqualification
On 15 December 2017, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by then Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar disqualified Tareen for life for being “dishonest” from the court.
Tareen, a former federal minister and former close associate of Khan, was disqualified under Article 62 of the constitution – the same provision that disqualified three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif – as a whistleblower this July. The year in the Panama Papers case
Tareen was also found guilty of hiding an offshore company based in London.
Muslim League (N) MP and leader Hanif Abbasi filed a petition in November 2016 against PTI leaders for money laundering, tax evasion, fake money trial and surrendering their assets to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). was charged with non-disclosure.
Abbasi also accused the opposition party of being a “foreign funded” party.
The judges dismissed all charges related to money laundering, tax evasion and fake money trail.
However, he ordered the Election Commission to investigate allegations of foreign funding against PTI.
