ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Zardari Tuesday submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court of Pakistan, declaring that he does not own any property or bank accounts abroad, a private TV channel reported.
The document was submitted in a case related to the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) passed by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
The affidavit states that Zardari owns no moveable or immovable property or any bank account outside Pakistan. The affidavit, submitted through Farooq H Naek, also states that Zardari stands by whatever he has written in the already recorded statement.
The apex court has set the hearing for Wednesday (today).
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar is hearing the case. The NRO granted amnesty to politicians and other individuals by quashing various corruption and criminal cases against them so they could return to the country and engage in the democratic process.
In previous hearings, the chief justice had ordered Musharraf, Zardari and former attorney general Justice (r) Malik Qayyum to submit the details of their foreign bank accounts. Nominating Musharraf, Zardari and Qayyum as respondents, petitioner Feroz Shah Gilani had requested the court in April this year to order recovery of ‘huge amounts of public money misappropriated and wasted by them through unlawful means already on record in different judgments of the Supreme Court and high court’.
Published in Daily Times, August 29th 2018.
