{"id":76671,"date":"2018-08-29T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76671"},"modified":"2018-08-29T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:12:17","slug":"top-court-rejects-affidavit-of-zardari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76671","title":{"rendered":"Top court rejects affidavit of Zardari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Islamabad, Aug. 29 (TNS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the affidavit submitted by former presidents Asif Ali Zardari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">The top court also rejected affidavits of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, and ex-attorney general Malik Mohammad Qayyum regarding assets owned by them in Pakistan and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">While hearing a petition regarding the 2007 National Recon\u00adciliation Ordinance (NRO), a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar ordered the three men to submit complete details of their assets and bank accounts held inside and outside the country in the past 10 years within three weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">The trio has also been directed to disclose before the court the details of assets of their spouses and children both in the country as well as abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">The counsel representing Zardari, Farooq H. Naek, argued before the bench today that the PPP co-chairman had spent nine years in jail but &#8220;nothing could be proven&#8221; against him. He said Zardari should get some sort of compensation for the nine-year prison sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Aug. 29 (TNS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the affidavit submitted by former presidents Asif Ali Zardari. The top court also rejected affidavits of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, and ex-attorney general Malik Mohammad Qayyum regarding assets owned by them in Pakistan and abroad. While hearing a petition regarding the 2007 National Recon\u00adciliation Ordinance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76672,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions\/76672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}