ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has written a letter toNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal,asking him to launch an investigation against former chief justice ofPakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his family for allegedly receivingbenefits in the scam of a failed private housing scheme, Eden Housing, inLahore.
The PTI’s move is seen as a tit-for-tat response to the former chiefjustice whose political party has filed objections to the nomination papersof PTI chairman Imran Khan for the coming general elections.
A leader of the Iftikhar Chaudhry-led Pakistan Justice and Democratic Party(PJDP) has claimed in his objections that Mr Khan had a daughter, TyrianWhite, and that he had not mentioned her name in his nomination papers.
The PTI letter was sent to the NAB chief by the party’s spokesman, FawadChaudhry, on Friday.
In the letter, the PTI spokesman requested the NAB chairman to take actionagainst Iftikhar Chaudhry, otherwise questions would be raised about theimpartiality of NAB. Action should be taken against Iftikhar Chaudhry, hisdaughter, son-in-law and the father of his son-in-law for allegedlycheating innocent people who had invested their hard-earned money in theEden Housing Scheme, he added.
PTI spokesman said Iftikhar Chaudhry’s daughter got married to the son ofthe Eden Housing Scheme’s owner at the time when her father as the chiefjustice of the country was hearing a case regarding alleged irregularitiesin the housing scheme.
He claimed that after the marriage the name of the housing scheme’s ownershad been removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) and later they left thecountry. With their departure, he added, millions of rupees of those whoinvested their money in the housing scheme could not be recovered.
The PTI spokesman also claimed that under an agreement with the PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz, the former chief justice had formed a panel of judgesallegedly to rig the 2013 general elections and help Nawaz Sharif becomeprime minister of the country.