ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Monday submitted a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification under Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution.
“Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan has lost his eligibility as Member of National Assembly under Article 62 (1) (f) because the information in Panama leak in shape of four flats in Park Lane, Mayfair, London, was never mentioned by him in his nomination papers in Election 2013, Income Tax Statements and Wealth Tax Statements, which he admitted in his speech, therefore, he remained no more Sadiq or Ameen,” the petition stated.
The petitioner alleged that the Prime Minister had intentionally concealed property owned by him outside Pakistan, particularly in London, as a result whereof he evaded taxes. He is not competent to being the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the party added.
Last year in April, the Panama leaks revealed that Sharif s children owned offshore companies and assets not mentioned in his family’s wealth statement.
INP