ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court is set to resume hearing of the disqualification case against Imran Khan from Tuesday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief has submitted a chart of remittances from his former wife Jemima Khan.

In a four-page application for placing additional documents filed through his counsel Naeem Bokhari, Mr Khan has stated that he has already produced relevant and available records to satisfy the court and rebut allegations against him.

He has requested the apex court to dismiss the miscellaneous application filed by Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Hanif Abbasi on the basis of which he was asked to submit the reply.

Headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, a three-judge bench will commence hearing of the petition seeking disqualification of Mr Khan and PTI secretary general Jahangir Tareen over non-disclosure of assets, existence of offshore companies owned by Mr Khan and Mr Tareen and the PTI being a ‘foreign-aided’ party.

Tells SC whatever income he earned was taxed abroad and it was neither taxable nor required to be declared in Pakistan

In his petition, Mr Abbasi, through his counsel Akram Sheikh, requested the apex court to order Mr Khan to submit bank statements of his close friend Rashid Ali Khan from March 2002 to Jan 2003 from the Citibank, Islamabad, those of Jemima Khan from the United Kingdom and confirmation of remittance amounting to $660,693.

In addition, the petitioner also sought income tax returns and wealth statements of Mr Khan from 2001 to 2005, his bank account statements from the UK from April 2003 to Dec 2003 and wealth tax statements from 1983 to 2003.

In response, Mr Khan has submitted the chart of remittances sent by Ms Jemima to Mr Rashid, which were used for the purchase of 300 kanals of land in Banigala, Islamabad, in different phases.

The amount remitted by Ms Jemima on different occasions includes $258,333 on April 11, 2002; $275,678 on Aug 1, 2002; 20,000 pounds on Oct 2, 2002; $16,000 on Oct 5, 2002; $5,000 each on Nov 19 and Dec 11, 2002 and $100,000 on Jan 23, 2003. The total remittance amounted to Rs40.8 million after conversion in the Pakistani rupee.

Mr Khan has said that his counsel, during the course of arguments, has already addressed each and every contention raised about the payments mentioned in Mr Abbasi’s application with the support of relevant documents available in his earlier filed concise statement, supplementary concise statement and two miscellaneous applications.

He has reiterated that whatever income he earned was taxed abroad and it was neither taxable nor required to be declared in Pakistan.

Mr Khan has said that the borrowed amount from Ms Jemima and then remitted to him through banks was declared to the State Bank of Pakistan and converted to the Pakistani rupee to be paid to the seller of the Banigala land through bank cheques.

He has denied the allegation levelled by Mr Abbasi that the chain of transactions on which Mr Khan relies as the proof of money trail of the source of funds for the purchase of Banigala land contains glaring missing links.

The PTI chief has said Mr Abbasi himself attached his (Khan’s) statement of assets for 2002 submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) with his application.

Moreover, he says, he has stated on oath in his affidavit that the leftover amount after the sale of the London flat was used for litigation in the UK and to pay damages on the flat and other dues and to settle his two sons in the UK.

Earlier, the Supreme Court also asked the ECP to furnish copies of cases against Mr Khan and its proceedings along with different orders till date in addition to information regarding pending of any challenge against the commission’s orders before any high court.

Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2017