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Minister for Petroleum and National Resources Shahid Khaqan
Abbasi said day before yesterday, they had expressed reservations
about the conduct and attitude of JIT members.
The JIT report, he said, reminded of the references filed during
the period of General (R) Pervez Musharraf against the Sharif family,
which were not based on facts and reality.
He said it was repeatedly mentioned in the JIT report that the
members of Sharif family had assets beyond their known sources of
income.
Same allegations were levelled in the references filed by
General (R) Musharraf, he noted.
Shahid Khaqan said Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz were
overseas Pakistanis and lived abroad, and thus the country’s
laws could not be applied on them.
He said sending money through banking channels was not
illegal under any law of the country.
Many of the points raised in the JIT report, he said,
were unbelievable and ridiculous.
He said such a JIT report was not a surprise as they had
already expressed their reservations on its composition and
political affiliations of its members.
The minister said it was written in the report that the
charity given by Ishaq Dar was also tax evasion, which was absurd.
He said amazingly it was mentioned in the report
that Ishaq Dar’s assets had increased during the period while he
was living abroad, which, however, was not right.
“How is it illegal to do business and make money abroad?”
He said for the PML-N facts of the case were very clear and
their lawyers were minutely looking into the report.
“We are not afraid and we will take our case to the people of
Pakistan.”
He said the PML-N always respected the Supreme Court.
We fought for democracy and for restoration of judiciary.”