In this file photograph taken on June 5, 2013, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives to inspect a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad. (AFP Photo)
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday declared that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ineligible to hold a public office for life, court records and local media reported.
The ruling, which has shut the doors of politics for the three-time premier, and for other politicians, including the secretary general of the main opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jahangir Khan Tareen for life, was unanimously announced by a five-member bench led by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar.
Sharif had been disqualified by the top court in July last year over the Panama Papers scandal. Tareen too was disqualified in December 2017 for hiding assets and owning an offshore company.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz group) has termed the judgment ” politically motivated”.
“This is another sequel of judgments, which have been given against elected public representatives in the past. And the people of Pakistan have always rejected these judgments,” Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb told reporters outside the Supreme Court.
Along with his daughter and other family members, Sharif, whose party came into power in a landslide victory in the 2013 general election, is already facing three corruption cases, which, he claims, are “cooked up” and aimed at ousting him and his party from politics.
In April 2016, Sharif’s eldest son, Hussain Nawaz, admitted in an interview with a local Pakistani channel that his family owned the offshore companies and the apartments in London.
He insisted the transactions were all legal and refused to make his assets public, claiming that such a move could harm his business interests.
The Panama Papers released by Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in April last year highlighted the involvement of various business ans political personalities , among them 11 current and former national leaders, claiming they worked with the firm Mossack Fonseca to establish shadow companies for global transactions and money laundering.
The revelation sent shockwaves across the world, resulting in the resignation of Iceland Premier Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.
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I do not see that questions are raised WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM. Hiding money yes, but how did it get there?
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Most Muslim leaders are hypocrite and also most Islamic clerics or scholars are hypocrite and Syrick. That is why Islamic majority countries are destabilatable or poverty. Very sad indeed
Whom we should blame?
Clerics or political leaders ?
I choose Clerics to be blamed
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Dear Somi, you have been a guest at The Muslim Times for quite some time. Have you not yet noticed that what is needed for the Muslims is to accept the Imam of this age. If Allah has sent the Imam Mahdi and Messiah to guide the Muslims only by accepting him can we all be ‘rightly guided’ and get away from the mess the Muslim World finds itself in these days. Please watch and listen to today’s Friday Sermon of our beloved Khalifa. Mashallah, such wisdom packed into a one hour sermon. (today from our Mosque in Spain – the first Mosque built in Spain after 700 years. I was at the inauguration ceremony, Alhamdolillah)
and political leaders, who misuse religion for the purpose of gaining a few votes.
Most political leaders ( Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonedia) have been influenced by extremist Clerics who have many followers. Political leaders want their vote—even they are against his beliefs—unfortunately political leader become a hypocrite leader.
This way I see Rafiq.
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That is ‘democracy’. Sacrificing the rights of minorities for some votes.
Democracy is not bad or to be blamed, leaders should be blamed— there is no better system than Democracy now.
Do you agree with the system Caliphate as Refer to Holy Quran 2:30?
All love ❤️