Tareen to challenge his disqualification

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Inasaf (PTI) leader Jehangir Tareen will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict, disqualifying him for non-declaration of his assets, the London property in his nomination papers.

A close aide of Tareen Tuesday confirmed to The News that a review petition would be filed shortly in the Supreme Court.

As per Article 188 of the Constitution, read with Order XXVI of the Supreme Court Rules, 1980, a review petition should be filed within 30 days from the date of judgment or order of the court.

The review petition, which would be filed through his counsel Sikandar Bashir Mohmand, Tareen would be specifically focusing on the issue pertaining to the ownership of London property, the Hyde House wherein he would be contending that he was not the beneficial owner of the said property.

His close aide said Tareen would reiterate in his review petition that the Hyde House was the discretionary trust for his children; therefore, it was for them to decide the sale of the said property and for that there had to be a unanimous agreement among his children.

Similarly, he said Tareen was annoyed at his financial advisors who misguided him not to disclose the Hyde House in the nomination papers, adding that the interpretation of the financial advisors was that the Hyde House was a trust and not the sole asset of Tareen.

Tareen is also perturbed by the apex judgment declaring him not an honest person in terms of constitutional provisions, sources said.

“My whole business life as well as political carrier is based on honesty for which every businessman of South Punjab wanted to enter into business deal with me,” the close aide quoted Jehangir Tareen as saying after the apex court disqualified him.