ISLAMABAD – Former judge of Gilgit-Baltistan Rana Mohammad Shamim whohurled serious allegations on ex-CJP Saqib Nisar Former chief judge ofGilgit-Baltistan Rana Mohammad Shamim, is in direct contact with the oustedPM Nawaz, the son of former chief judge revealed.
Ahmed Hasan Rana, the son of former Gilgit Baltistan judge, made thestartling revelations during a prime time show a day after Shamim accusedSaqib Nisar of judicial interference in the corruption references of NawazSharif and Maryam Nawaz.
Shamim’s son, who is also an advocate of the country’s top court, confirmedthe association of his father with the three times Pakistani PM. Rana addedthat his father also served as the vice-president of PML-N Sindh in thepast and was Nawaz’s legal representative in the Memogate scandal case.
He made the shocking statements on the same day as the Islamabad High Court(IHC) issued show-cause notices to the senior journalist, former judge,sand two others.
Speaking in the programme, Rana said he also met the PML-N supremo in jailwhile adding that his father had last met the former premier while visitingthe UK before the Covid pandemic. My father has was in Nawaz’s legal teamso the two have ‘direct relations’, he added.
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Appearing on another show of a private news channel, Rana confirmed that hewas not aware that his father would make the statement about Nisar whilevisiting London clarifying that he had not seen the actual affidavit.
He mentioned that a special Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) should beconstituted to resolve the matter because it involved the top judicialmembers.
Meanwhile, PML-N leader Musaddik Malik termed Rana’s statement ‘interestingand funny’. Malik declined to comment on the ambiguities in the matter,saying Shamim’s son had to answer for himself in the court.
