Capt Safdar wrongly blames Lt Gen Faiz Hameed over Panama case
PML-N leader Captain Retired Safdar has blamed Lt Gen Faiz Hameed for playing role in the Panama case to allegedly victimise Sharif family.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Captain Retired Safdar has blamed Lt Gen Faiz Hameed for playing role in the Panama case to allegedly victimise the Sharif family.
While talking to journalists outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC), Capt Retd Safdar said, “Nawaz Sharif will bring forth facts soon. Faiz Hameed will have to answer them but not General Bajwa. If a child of a family is stubborn then how can we register an FIR against his father.”
Senior journalist Matiullah Jan questioned, “You said that General Bajwa is a professional and neutral officer.”
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“I was his student in the infantry school in 1988. You should ask him about me by yourself. He may not recognise me as thousands of students were there. It is inappropriate to drag an institution [into the politics] but not only General Bajwa,” replied Safdar. He made the statement outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
ریکارڈ کی درستگی کیلئے پانامہ کیس سے لے کے سزا ہونے تک ڈی جی آئی ایس آئی جنرل فیص حمید نہیں بلکہ نواز شریف کے رشتے دار جنرل نوید مختار تھے اب اس ویڈیو کو سنیں۔۔۔pic.twitter.com/OvrYlpxYPA
— Waqar Malik (@RealWaqarMaliks) October 18, 2022
Analysts said that at the time of the Panama Papers leaks, a joint investigation team (JIT) was formed and DG ISI was Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar but not Faiz Hameed.
It is pertinent to mention here that PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz and her husband Captain Retd Safdar were acquitted in the Avenfield corruption reference four years after their conviction.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) had overturned the July 2018 verdict, acquitting Maryam Nawaz and Captain Retd Safdar in the Avenfield corruption reference.
On July 6, a few weeks before the elections in 2018, the accountability judge of Islamabad, who was working under the supervision of an apex court judge, convicted the Sharif family in the Avenfield apartment reference.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was handed 10 years as jail time for owning assets beyond known income and one year for not cooperating with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Meanwhile, Maryam was given 7 years for abetment after she was found “instrumental in concealment of the properties of her father” and one year for non-cooperation with the bureau, according to Dawn News.
Safdar was given one year jail time — for not cooperating with NAB, and aiding and abetting Nawaz and Maryam.
The Sharif family had filed appeals against its conviction before the IHC in the second week of August 2018. The court had on Sep 18 the same year suspended their sentences and released them on bail.
In October last year, Maryam filed a new application, along with “extremely relevant, simple and clear-cut facts”, with the IHC seeking annulment of that verdict.
