Arsalan Iftikhar pleads review of court's decision

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ISLAMABAD: Arsalan Iftikhar, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday to review the court’s decision in the suo motu notice pertaining to allegations against him, DawnNews reported.

Arsalan’s attorney Sardar Ishaque filed a petition in the apex court.

The petition showed Arsalan’s mistrust on Attorney General Irfan Qadir and on the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) investigation team.

Earlier the apex court had asked the attorney general to handle the controversy revolving around allegations of a business deal between real estate tycoon Malik Riaz and Dr Arsalan Iftikhar.

“The attorney general has misinterpreted the court’s verdict and the team formed by the NAB is illegal,” the petition stated.

“The chief of investigation team Kausar Iqbal has a shady past and he lives in Bahria Town…the Superintendent Police of Islamabad, who is also part of the team, was a close associate of Malik Riaz,” the petition added.

Arsalan has requested the court to form a judicial commission to hear the case.

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M.AZAM

Jul 13, 2012 06:57pm

Do agreed,Thanks you have such courage to say fact.

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Zero

Jul 13, 2012 05:45pm

Bad call!

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Muhammad Alvi

Jul 13, 2012 01:18pm

Arsalan's mistrust in Attorney General and other NAB team seems valid. Malik Riaz has long hands and has influence everywhere in Pakistan. It is easy in Pakistan - just buy lots of people, then make lots of money by using those people, and with that lots of money buy more people. Malik Riaz used that approach very successfully and bought even Zardari. If you remember, Zardari travelled for his medical treatment abroad in Malik Riaz's personal jet. Malik Riaz is wrongly called real estate tycoon; he should be called real estate grabber. He has unlawfully grabbed land of thousands of people. There is no law enforcement in Pakistan to put someone like him in place. There are dozens of cases against him in the supreme court. That is why Malik Riaz is now threatening even the supreme court. Arsalan's case is part of his agenda.

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Saj

Jul 13, 2012 02:47pm

So can you state in figures how many illegal lands he has grabbed, you will be disappointed when you will know the actual number because i was too. He is not definitely the cleanest person but who else is but he has done more welfare work than Edi sb. Two wrongs does not make right but you need to see who is Dr Arslaan as well, because of him CJ got embarrassed and removed, billions spend to bring him back, General Musharraf had to leave and we got Zardari and look where we stand as compare to 2008.

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Shahzad

Jul 13, 2012 02:20pm

What is he scared of?

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Syed Ahmed

Jul 13, 2012 04:32pm

Boy you are mistaken. All acts of the party in power and their henchmen point towards pestering the judiciary. Arslan’s case is no case. It is a matter of give and take of two adults and has to be addressed by them

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Shabbir

Jul 13, 2012 12:05pm

Seems Judge has changed his mind! ok my boy anything for you!

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s7786

Jul 13, 2012 02:39pm

daddy daddy, come save me!

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jamal

Jul 13, 2012 02:25pm

Chickens have come home to roost for this highly biased CJ. What goes around comes around. I hope this CJ is hounded the same way he has hounded other people.

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ForJustice

Jul 14, 2012 05:46am

Good work Supreme Court. Salute to all the judges and especially the Chief Justice. Justice should be for everybody. If Arsalan has done something wrong then he should be punished. If he is innocent he has nothing to worry. if Zardari has done something wrong then why he is worried to get the case open !! Bukhari 8:81:78 The Prophet said, "By Him in whose Hand my soul is! If Fatima (his daughter) stole aught I would cut off her hand."

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shair khan

Jul 21, 2012 03:33am

Special treatement because he is a son on CJ. This is a joke :-)

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Zishi

Aug 16, 2012 01:02pm

Pakistan is only about 25 people all together and everything revolves around them. Government and Judiciary are fighting and no one seems to be winning. But Pakistan is definitely loosing.

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