Pak SC rejects Imran’s plea to disqualify Sharif

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad-Pakistans Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected as frivolous a plea by opposition leader Imran Khan seeking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs disqualification from his office and the National Assembly for alleged involvement in corruption.

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party chief’s lawyer had filed the plea in the top court on Monday after millions of documents leaked from a Panamian law firm in April disclosed Sharifs daughter and two sons owned properties in the United Kingdom that were not shown on his familys wealth statement. The top court said prima-facie the petition appeared to be frivolous and the petitioner did not approach a high court before coming to it for addressing their grievances.

The petitioner has not approached any other appropriate forum available to him under the law for the same relief. He has also not provided the justification for not doing so, it said. Stung by the rebuke, Ishaq Khan Khakwani of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said since the plea had been knocked down on technical grounds, the party would re-file it after removing the legal lacunae.