ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) resumed today the hearing of Mehrangate scandal, need learning reported.
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain said to former chief of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Retired Asad Durrani that you require picking so you better hire a lawyer.
Attorney General for Pakistan Molvi Anwarul Haq informed the court that he's scrutinized the statements of people in this case and there was nothing to keep them classified.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry remarked that the agencies are not working as per their mandate. 'We cannot comprise on the interests of the State.
While referring to Asad Durrani the CJ said you are accepting that you distributed money. 'You and Aslam Beg were generals when this happened and they don't know the consequences of this act.'
Later, the hearing was adjourned till March 30th.
Appearing before a three-Judge bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, on a 1996 pending plea of retired air marshal Asghar Khan, he recorded his statement.
Asad Durrani on March 09 testified before the SC that he received instructions from the then chief of army staff Mirza Aslam Baig to make arrangements for disbursement of Rs140 million among the candidates contesting 1990 general elections to manipulate the results.
He said "I received instruction from the COAS, Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, that a positive business community in Karachi had raised some contribution to support the election campaign of the IJI and if I could arrange it to be distributed as per the formulas that would be conveyed to me by the election cell in the President's office."
He said that it was his belief that former army chief was under the instructions from late president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
However, denying existence of any political cell in ISI, he said the political work could be carried out by those who had been assigned the task.