ISLAMABAD – PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur havedecided to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the January7 verdict in the fake accounts case.
The petition will be filed on Monday.
According to the petition filed through Latif Khosa advocate, the FIA hasfailed to file the final challan in the banking court. Moreover, the JITcould not find direct evidence. “We want to take the matter to the logicalend in a transparent way. The court formed a JIT on the request of the FIAand we appeared before the JIT and submitted a written reply,” it stated.
Asif Zardari and Faryal Talpur, in the petition, stated that JIT submittedthe report to the Supreme Court without listening to their stance.
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They said that the JIT report was based on assumptions and the JIT hadrecommended further probe into the matter. They demanded that the January 7verdict be reviewed.
On January 7, the Supreme Court had ordered that the fake accounts case beforwarded to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and directed theanti-corruption watchdog to wrap up its investigation within two months.