* PML-Q president says PML-N leaders threatened Hamesh Khan after he refused to sanction their loan
* Kamil Ali Agha says Monis Elahi has not fled country after Hamesh’s arrest, will return next week
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday alleged that the Sharif brothers had defaulted on nine Pakistani banks and had given death threats to Hamesh Khan after he refused to sanction a loan of Rs 500 million to them during his tenure as the president of the Bank of Punjab (BOP).
Addressing a press conference along with other party leaders, including PML-Q Secretary Information Kamil Ali Agha and Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, he said no PML-Q leader owned any property or asset outside of the country, adding that the party did not have foreign bank accounts like the “corrupt leadership of the ruling party in Punjab”.
A fresh bank statement was also distributed in the press conference, in which it was claimed that the Sharif brothers’ Ittefaq Group was a defaulter of the BoP, National Bank, Habib Bank, United Bank, Muslim Commercial Bank, Punjab Mudarba Bank, Agriculture Development Bank, PICIC and ICP. The PML-Q leaders also read a statement by Hamesh Khan that was filed in the US Department of State, through his lawyers, which said that Punjab Chief Minsiter Shahbaz Sharif had pressurised him (Hamesh) to establish him as an approver against former chief minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi and his son Monis Elahi. They said that Hamesh, the main accused in the BoP and Haris Steel Mills case, had also declared Pervaiz Elahi and Monis Elahi as “neat and clean personalities” because they had not used any unfair means to make money and were not defaulters of any bank, adding that after Hamesh’s statement, the “real faces of defaulters and looters of the national exchequer had been exposed”.
“The Sharif brothers want to establish connections between Hamesh and the Elahi family, but Hamesh’s statement has rendered any such plans a failure,” Shujaat said. Kamil Ali Agha, addressing the press conference, said that the Punjab CM, along with his two sons, Hamza and Salman, had wanted to obtain a loan of $8 million from the BoP, but Hamesh did not sanction the loan. “In response, they threatened and later started police raids at his home… they even threatened his wife,” he said. Return: To a question, Shujaat said that Monis Elahi had not run away from the country after Hamesh was arrested and that “he was on a personal tour and would return to the country next week”.
Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\17\story_17-5-2010_pg7_9
* Kamil Ali Agha says Monis Elahi has not fled country after Hamesh’s arrest, will return next week
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday alleged that the Sharif brothers had defaulted on nine Pakistani banks and had given death threats to Hamesh Khan after he refused to sanction a loan of Rs 500 million to them during his tenure as the president of the Bank of Punjab (BOP).
Addressing a press conference along with other party leaders, including PML-Q Secretary Information Kamil Ali Agha and Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, he said no PML-Q leader owned any property or asset outside of the country, adding that the party did not have foreign bank accounts like the “corrupt leadership of the ruling party in Punjab”.
A fresh bank statement was also distributed in the press conference, in which it was claimed that the Sharif brothers’ Ittefaq Group was a defaulter of the BoP, National Bank, Habib Bank, United Bank, Muslim Commercial Bank, Punjab Mudarba Bank, Agriculture Development Bank, PICIC and ICP. The PML-Q leaders also read a statement by Hamesh Khan that was filed in the US Department of State, through his lawyers, which said that Punjab Chief Minsiter Shahbaz Sharif had pressurised him (Hamesh) to establish him as an approver against former chief minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi and his son Monis Elahi. They said that Hamesh, the main accused in the BoP and Haris Steel Mills case, had also declared Pervaiz Elahi and Monis Elahi as “neat and clean personalities” because they had not used any unfair means to make money and were not defaulters of any bank, adding that after Hamesh’s statement, the “real faces of defaulters and looters of the national exchequer had been exposed”.
“The Sharif brothers want to establish connections between Hamesh and the Elahi family, but Hamesh’s statement has rendered any such plans a failure,” Shujaat said. Kamil Ali Agha, addressing the press conference, said that the Punjab CM, along with his two sons, Hamza and Salman, had wanted to obtain a loan of $8 million from the BoP, but Hamesh did not sanction the loan. “In response, they threatened and later started police raids at his home… they even threatened his wife,” he said. Return: To a question, Shujaat said that Monis Elahi had not run away from the country after Hamesh was arrested and that “he was on a personal tour and would return to the country next week”.
Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\17\story_17-5-2010_pg7_9
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