ISLAMABAD – Supreme Court (SC) has served notices to former premier NawazSharif and former secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)Jahangir Tareen to either appear in person or have their counsels attendproceedings in disqualification cases over Article 62 (1)F on January 30.

Nawaz Sharif and Tareen were disqualified in separate cases filed by theopposing political parties with the top court over assets beyond meansallegations.

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Saqib Nisar had remarked duringhearing of an other case earlier last week that the top court and judgesare entitled to decide the period of disqualification.

Whether it would be for a lifetime, a year or five years, the judges are todecide, CJP has said.

Nawaz Sharif, then premier of Pakistan was disqualified over failure todeclare all of his assets in a verdict that was delivered on July 28, 2017.

In the following months, PTI secretary general was disqualified while PTIchief Imran Khan was acquitted on petition filed by Hanif Abbasi of rulingPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).