Excerpt from the SC verdict is noted below:
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13) Late Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the then President of Pakistan, General (R) Aslam Baig and General (R) Asad Durrani acted in violation of the Constitution by facilitating a group of politicians and political parties, etc., to ensure their success against the rival candidates in the general election of 1990, for which they secured funds from Mr. Younas Habib. Their acts have brought a bad name to Pakistan and its Armed Forces as well as secret agencies in the eyes of the nation, therefore, notwithstanding that they may have retired from service, the Federal Government shall take necessary steps under the Constitution and Law against them.
(14) Similarly,legal proceedings shall be initiated against the politicians, who allegedly have received donations to spend on election campaigns in the general election of 1990, therefore, transparent investigation on the criminal side shall be initiated by the FIA against all of them and if sufficient evidence is collected, they shall be sent up to face the trial, according to law.
Mr. Younas Habib shall also be dealt with in the same manner.
(15) Proceedings shall also be launched against the persons specified hereinabove for affecting the recovery of sums received by them with profit thereon by initiating civil proceedings, according to law.
(16) An amount of Rs.80 million, statedly, has been deposited in Account No. 313 titled Survey and Construction Group Karachi, maintained by MI, therefore, this amount with profit shall be transferred to Habib Bank Ltd. if the liability of HBL has not been adjusted so far, otherwise, the same may be deposited in the treasury account of Government of Pakistan.
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According to my understanding of English; Bribery is giving money in order to gain an advantage. On the other hand graft is the personal gain or advantage earned by an individual at the expense of others or as a result of the exploitation of the singular status. These are opposite sides of the same coin.
The wording is if sufficient evidence is collected against them they shall be sent up to face the trial. It has been established that a crime was committed; bot the parties were named in the petition. This is very strange that the people who paid the bribe are all named but SC conveniently omitted names of the people who accepted the bribe!
I am not very intelligent and cannot grasp subtleties. To my simple mind, if there are two parties involved, both are equally guilty. Deliberate omission of the receivers of graft shows that SC remains partial to Nawaz Sharif as he is one of main beneficiary who are alive today.
Full names of the politicians that took the graft are listed by Honourable Leader in another Thread. Suffice to say that Nawaz Sharif accepted 35 lakh rupees.
P.S. Money was not pocketed by Aslam Baig or Durrani or Younus Habib. The funds were distributed. Unless you name the receivers and institute proceeding against the dishonest politicians, how can you recover the funds?