LAHORE: The Lahore Excessive Courtroom has been requested to order the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) and different investigating companies to conduct a complete inquiry into the Dubai leaks regarding properties owned by Pakistani residents, together with politicians and armed officers.
Citizen Mashkoor Hussain, in his petition filed by way of Advocate Nadeem Sarwar, acknowledged that he approached the courtroom for the general public good. He argued that the leaked information supplied an in depth overview of properties in Dubai owned by round 17,000 Pakistani residents, with details about their possession or utilization largely from 2020 and 2022.
The petitioner contended {that a} detailed probe needs to be carried out to determine whether or not the properties talked about within the Dubai leaks had been absolutely declared by their homeowners earlier than the competent authorities. He urged the authorities to find out whether or not these properties had been bought by way of tax evasion or unlawful means.
If any particular person is discovered concerned within the Dubai leaks by way of tax evasion, cash laundering, or every other unlawful means, the petitioner demanded stern motion in opposition to them beneath related legal guidelines.
The petitioner additionally requested the courtroom to observe all investigation proceedings and ordered the federal authorities to supply all reviews/progress till the ultimate adjudication of this petition.
The respondents listed within the petition embody the Federal Investigation Company, Federal Board of Income, and the Election Fee of Pakistan.
Askari Tower: An anti-terrorism courtroom on Saturday directed the prosecution to distribute copies of the challan (investigation report) among the many suspects of the Askari Tower assault case on June 5.
Earlier, the police produced PTI Punjab President Dr Yasmin Rashid, former governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry and different incarcerated suspects earlier than the courtroom.
Dressmaker Khadija Shah and different suspects, who’ve been launched on bail, additionally appeared earlier than the courtroom to attend the trial proceedings.
Choose Arshad Javed marked the attendance of the suspects and postpone the listening to until June 5 for the distribution of the copies of the challan.
The decide additionally summoned police document within the bail petitions of former governor Cheema in 4 instances of the Could 9 riots. He adjourned the bail petitions in instances of Shadman police station assault and burning police autos exterior Zaman Park until Could 24.
The listening to in two instances of torching police autos in cantonment was adjourned until Could 22.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could nineteenth, 2024