ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf General Secretary Jahangir Tareen said on Friday that all the allegations of financial wrongdoing were thrown out against him by the Supreme Court in its verdict in the disqualification case against him. The PTI secretary general took to Twitter to express his views following the verdict. “I worked sincerely with all my strength for the betterment of PTI and Pakistan. I am proud that all allegations of financial wrongdoing were thrown out. I will continue to stand tall and keep working for a Naya Pakistan,” he said. Following the SC decision, Tareen in his first tweet questioned the reason for his disqualification. “Accusations Rejected by SC 1) Misuse of authority, loan write-off 2) Insider Trading 3) Misdeclared Agri income 4) London Property Full money trail accepted not hidden, declared in children’s assets since 2011. And SC disqualifies me on mere interpretation of the trust deed???,” he tweeted. The court in its verdict stated that Tareen had made a ‘blatant misstatement’ before the highest judicial forum of the country by claiming that he had “no beneficial interest in the trust arrangement which holds the SVL and the Hyde House” while he was in fact a ‘discretionary lifetime beneficiary’ along with his spouse. “Thus, he is declared not to be an honest person in terms of the constitutional provisions and the provisions of ROPA”.
Published in Daily Times, December 16th 2017.
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