LAHORE: Ali Asghar Khan, son of former air chief Asghar Khan, says he will not let the case of his father closed, ARY News reported on Saturday.
Khan, who is also the leader of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said he was ready to plead the case himself. “I have also submitted an application to the registrar of the Supreme Court in this regard,” he said in a statement.
He said he was waiting to get a reply from the apex court.
Read: FIA asks SC to close Asghar Khan case over ‘lack of evidence’
Last week, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) requested the Supreme Court to close the Asghar Khan case related to alleged distribution of money among politicians, including former premier Nawaz Sharif, to defeat the PPP in the 1990 general elections.
The FIA submitted a report to the top court, stating that it has no evidence enough to initiate proceedings against those named in the case. The politicians who were accused of receiving money denied doing so in their statements, it added.
The report said there were gaps and contradiction in the statements of witnesses in the 25-year-old matter. Besides, there was no record of transactions made through banks, it added.
In his reply, PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif had earlier categorically stated that he never received Rs3.5 million for campaign to engineer the 1990 elections.
Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan had written a letter to the then chief justice of Pakistan Nasim Hassan Shah in 1996, in which he alleged that the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, then army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg, and others had distributed Rs 140 million among several politicians to manipulate the 1990 polls to defeat Benazir Bhutto.
The former air marshal passed away on Jan 5, 2018 after a protracted illness at the age of 97.
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