Musharraf says all his assets are legal and declared

LAHORE: Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has denied having acquired any undeclared asset inside or outside the country submitting a reply before the Lahore High Court to a petition against alleged foreign assets maintained by 64 personalities including incumbent and former rulers and their families, advocates and two ex-chief justices.

Advocate Akhtar Shah filed a brief reply on behalf of the former president stating that all the assets of his client are legal and declared.  Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree had filed the petition against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, son Hussain Nawaz, and brother Shahbaz Sharif (Punjab Chief Minister), PTI chief Imran Khan and his former wife Jemima Goldsmith, former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and his wife, former President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Faryal Talpur, former President Gen (retired) Pervez Musharraf, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, former Interior Minister Rehman Malik, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Ali Khan, Pervez Elahi, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town, former Chief Justices of LHC Khwaja Muhammad Sharif and Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, former presidents of SCBA Hamid Khan, Asma Jahangir, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and his wife Bushra Aitzaz and others.

The petitioner alleged thatthat the respondents/individuals had transferred at least $400 billion to foreign countries through money laundering. He said by doing it the politicians caused a huge loss to the national exchequer. He alleged that the respondents acquired assets in foreign countries through illegal money. He asked the court to issue directions to the politicians to bring back their assets to Pakistan. Justice Mamoon Rashid would take up the petition on April 27.