ISLAMABAD: The Supreme
Court issued on Saturday notices to the former premier Nawaz Sharif, former army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg and former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Lieutenant General Asad Durrani in the Asghar Khan case.
DG Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the attorney general have also been issued notices and have dir
ected to appear before
the SC on August 15.
A three-member bench presided over by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Just
ice Mian Saqib Nisar is scheduled to hear the case on Wednesday.
On June 2,
the Supreme
Court had dir
ected Nawaz, senior politician Javed Hashmi and 19 other civilians, who were accused in the case, to appear before it.
However, on June 9, the former PM had submitted a reply to
the SC denying the allegations of receiving Rs3.5 million for his 1990 election campaign.
In 1996, Air Marshal Khan had filed a human rights petition in
the Supreme
Court of Pakistan, accusing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of doling out money to a group of politicians in the 1990s.
The case was initiated by the air marshal after Benazir Bhutto’s interior minister Naseerullah Babar, a retired general, had disclosed in the National Assembly in 1994 how the ISI had disbursed funds to purchas
e the loyalty of politicians and public figures so as to manipulat
e the 1990 elections, form the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), and bring about the defeat of the PPP.
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