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February 12, 2019

Asghar Khan case: Why officers not court martialed?

In 1996, Asghar Khan had moved the Supreme Court, alleging that two senior army officers and the then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan had doled out Rs140 million among several politicians ahead of the 1990 polls to ensure Benazir Bhutto's defeat in the polls, following allegations in the National Assembly by the senior PPP leader and former interior minister Maj Gen Naseerullah Babar.