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Nawaz denies receiving money in Asghar Khan case

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ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday submitted his response to the Supreme Court in the Asghar Khan case, denying the allegations that he along with other politicians received a huge amount to stop the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from winning the 1990 polls.

In his reply in response to court notice, the former premier categorically stated that he never received Rs3.5 million from the former chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) for campaign for the 1990 elections.

He denied that he had received Rs3.5 million or Rs2.5 million from ISI director general Lt Gen Asad Durrani or the then owner of now defunct Mehran Bank Younis Habib.

Mr. Sharif stated that he had already recorded his statement in this case on Oct 14, 2015.

Earlier, the apex court had issued notices to 21 individuals, including the former premier, and former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg, to come up with their response in the case.

Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan wrote a letter to the then chief justice of Pakistan Nasim Hassan Shah in 1996, in which he alleged that the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, then army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg, then ISI director general Lt Gen Asad Durrani as well as then owner of now defunct Mehran Bank Younis Habib had distributed Rs 140 million among several politicians to manipulate the 1990 polls to defeat Benazir Bhutto.

After the passage of more than a decade following the matter having brought to the apex court, it gave a 141-page landmark verdict on October 19, 2012 declaring that 1990 elections were rigged.

It ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to investigate the matter and if evidence was found against anyone, action should be taken against them.

The court held that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that the 1990 election was rigged and that a political cell maintained by the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan at Presidency supported formation of the IJI to stop a victory of the PPP.

It found Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Baig and Durrani guilty of violating the constitution.

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