Sunday, 3 October 2010

Nawaz Sharif Sold Pakistani Citizen To USA

 Lahore High Court Tuesday issued notice to the government over a petition pleading for reopening of the case about handing over of Aimal Kansi to United States. Aimal Kansi, a native of Quetta, was given death sentence in United States. A division bench of LHC summoned the Attorney General and Advocate General Punjab over a petition filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery, which said that Aimal Kansi was illegally handed over to United States for cash during the Nawaz Sharif government.

Source: LHC issues notice to govt in Aimal Kansi case 

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Sharifs are defaulters of nine Pakistani banks

* 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

Saturday, 3 April 2010

Nawaz Sharif's Uses Taxpayer Money to Pay Personal Staff

 The government of Punjab has been paying the salaries of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s personal staff members, a private TV channel reported on Friday. The channel revealed in its report that the staff members who were being paid by the Punjab government included the PML-N chief’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Rai Riaz, his secretary, the cameraman and the photographer.
The salary of the PML-N chief’s PRO and personal secretary is said to be Rs 75,000 each, while his photographer and cameraman are being paid Rs 35,000 each, the channel reported. Nawaz’s PRO is also working as a consultant at the Directorate General of Public Relations (DGPR). Later on the same channel, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed denied the news, saying that the personal staff of the PML-N chief was not being paid from the provincial exchequer. “None of them are part of Nawaz Sharif’s personal team and they are employees of the DGPR,” Rasheed said. “I am the personal PRO of Nawaz Sharif,” he added. daily times monitor

Source: http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\04\03\story_3-4-2010_pg7_6