I will not allow closure of Asghar Khan case, says Ali Asghar

LAHORE: Son of former air chief marshal Ali Asghar Khan on Saturday said he will not allow closure of the Asghar Khan case over lack of evidence.

Khan, who is also the leader of the ruling party said he was ready to plead the case himself. “I have also submitted an application to the registrar of the Supreme Court in this regard. Now I am waiting for a reply.”

Read: FIA asks SC to close Asghar Khan case over ‘lack of evidence’

Last week, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) requested the Supreme Court to close the Asghar Khan case related to alleged distribution of money among politicians, including former premier Nawaz Sharif, to defeat the PPP in the 1990 general elections.

The FIA submitted a report to the top court, stating that it does not have enough evidence to proceed against the accused in the case. The politicians who were accused of receiving money denied doing so in their statements, it added.

The report said there were gaps and contradiction in the statements of witnesses in the 25-year-old case. There was no record of transactions made through banks, it added.

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In his reply, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif categorically denied receiving Rs3.5 million to engineer the 1990 elections.

In 1996, Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan had written a letter to the then chief justice of Pakistan Nasim Hassan Shah, alleging that the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, then army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg, and others had distributed Rs 140 million among several politicians to rig the 1990 polls against Benazir Bhutto.

The former air marshal passed away on Jan 5, 2018 after a protracted illness at the age of 97.