Swiss cases: Secretary law sent second letter without informing SC, reveals

[ice_man]

ISLAMABAD: The secretary law had sent a letter to the Swiss authorities in relation to graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari on November 22, 2012, without informing the Supreme Court, Attorney General of Pakistan revealed on Wednesday.

The revelation was made during the hearing of the NRO implementation case.

The apex court had asked the government to send a letter to the Swiss authorities, requesting to reopen criminal cases against the president.

The government wrote a letter, had it approved by the Supreme Court and sent it to the concerned authorities in Switzerland on November 5, 2012. However, the secretary law had again sent a letter without informing anyone on November 22, 2012.

The attorney general told the court that the ministry of law has also destroyed all the proof related to the second letter.

By sending a second letter to the Swiss authorities, the secretary law made the first letter invalid.

In February this year, Swiss authorities declined to reopen cases against President Zardari in response to the letter sent on November 22 and not the one sent on November 5.

Terming this action on the part of secretary law as contempt of court, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the matter should be investigated.

The government formed a committee to investigate the second letter. Intelligence Bureau head Aftab Sultan and Sami Saeed will be probing the issue and will submit their report to the apex court.

Swiss cases: Secretary law sent second letter without informing SC, reveals AG – The Express Tribune

 

[M.harris]

people who are invoved are 420 kai bachai.

 

[Devil Soul]

Time to face the Music Mr. Secretary law ...

 

[ice_man]

yaar these guys are such smart evil geniuses! no one expected them to do this!!!! how will this mindset of evil ever change!!! two faced law secretary just for a bit of money will save zardari from anything

 

[Thorough Pro]

Seems as no one has any fear of their wrong doings, and why would they all three branches of government, legislative, judiciary, and Admin are both corrupt and ball less.

You just need to hang 2/3 to set an example.

 

[Fracker]

This isn't going anywhere
Pmln needs to take notice immediately, and hang this guy from balls and fix miss doing . otherwise people will think pmln is supporting ppp


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[mr42O]

Noting will happen REMEBER MY WORDS... NAWAZ SHARIF ZARDARI all are crooks they will not capture each other. Despite all screaiing about corruption last year not 1 single PPP politican will be sent to jail....

 

[naumananjum]

AZ the evil genius no doubt...!!!!
i am now his bigger fan

 

[HAIDER]

OOOO GOD ,,,,i can't stop laughin ...imagine Genius CJ ask AG to write a letter to Swiss authority to open the case. In letter AG wrote to close the case...while letter presented to CJ showed had something else, that satisfied the CJ panel....lolzz......rofl....what a silly CJ...AZ double cross ...very smoothly ...reminds me what Shikh Rasheed used to say about AZ...

 

[Edevelop]

Govt to file appeal in Switzerland to reopen Zardari cases

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government has decided to file an appeal in Switzerland for the reopening of cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

The government has also engaged the counsels to pursue the cases against Zardari, and Munawar Akhtar has been appointed as focal person in Pakistan in this regard. This was revealed as a three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the miscellaneous application filed by the attorney general of Pakistan regarding the Swiss cases. AGP Munir A Malik told the bench that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has constituted a two-member committee comprising Cabinet Secretary Sami Saeed and IB DG Aftab Sultan to probe the matter about the “escape” of Law Ministry’s record regarding Swiss cases. The committee will submit its report within two weeks.

The court was shocked to know that the former PPP-led government had written second letter to the Swiss authorities asking them to not reopen the cases against Zardari. It expressed annoyance with the former government for writing the letter and observed that it was a severe violation of its order. The chief justice remarked that those responsible for this act should be held accountable, saying the Supreme Court was kept in dark about the development. The PPP regime had engaged Dr Nicolas Jeandin as its counsel in Swiss cases. Former law secretary Yasmin Abbasi had on November 22 wrote the second letter to Dr Jeandin, wherein he was instructed to explain to the attorney general of Geneva “the position of the government of Pakistan” on Swiss cases. hasnaat malik

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