salary as chairman of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based firm at the time of filing his nomination.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been disqualified by the Supreme Court after it found that the former failed to disclose his ?unwithdrawn? salary as chairman of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based firm at the time of filing his nomination.
According to reports, Page 23 and 24 of the Panama Case Verdict explains the legal basis for disqualifying Sharif. It says:
?As a sequel to what has been discussed in paragraphs 13 above, the following declaration and direction is issued:-
i) It is hereby declared that having failed to disclose his unwithdrawn receivables constituting assets from Capital FZE, Jebel Ali, UAE in his nomination papers filed for the General Elections held in 2013 in terms of Section 12(2)(f) of the Representation of the People Act, 1976 (ROPA), and having furnished a false declaration under solemn affirmation respondent No. 1 Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is not honest in terms of Section 99(f) of ROPA and Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, therefore, he is disqualified to be a Member of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament);
ii) The Election Commission of Pakistan shall issue a notification disqualifying respondent No. 1 Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif from being a Member of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) with immediate effect, where after he shall cease to be the Prime Minister of Pakistan.?
The top court five-judge larger bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa unanimously announced the verdict, disqualifying Sharif as it delivered the Panamagate verdict.
The apex court has ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file a reference against the accused in an accountability court in six weeks, directing for the trial to be concluded within six months.
It is the second time in Pakistan?s 70-year history that the Supreme Court has disqualified a sitting prime minister. In 2012 then prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was disqualified over contempt of court charges for refusing to reopen a corruption case against the sitting president Asif Ali Zardari.
Also no Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full five-year elected term. Most tenures have been cut short by military coups.
While serving as the country?s Prime Minister in 1993, Sharif was sacked by the then-president over graft allegations, while in 1999 he was ousted in a military coup.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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