ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan on Tuesday termed the news published in “The News”, which said that a Whatsapp caller posing himself as registrar of Supreme Court asked the bank officials to include specific names in the panal to be sent to SC as basless.
A spokesman for the State Bank said that SC had itself picked the name of SBP official for JIT.
When contacted Supreme Court Registrar Arbab Arif for confirmation of the news, he only offered ‘no comment’, Geo News reported.
“Let me do my work,” said the registrar and went inside the office of the Chief Justice.
According to The News report, using Whatsapp, a caller introduced himself as the Registrar Supreme Court and told the top bosses of the State Bank of Pakistan and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan to include specific names in the panel to be forwarded to the Supreme Court's special bench for the constitution of JIT on the Panama case.
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