Hamad bin Jasim was just 3 in 1981, his statement worthless: Shehla Raza
Shehla Raza said Hussain Nawaz earlier stated his business wasn�t helped by Qatari govt in a program
LAHORE: (Dunya News) – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syeda Shehla Raza has on Tuesday stated that the statement submitted by Hamid bin Jasim bin Jaber al-Thani was of no worth as he himself was just 3 years of age in 1981 and his statement is based only on the hearsay, reported Dunya News.
Talking to Kamran Shahid on Dunya News program ‘On the Front’, Shehla Raza said that Hamad bin Jasim’s statement was based on what he understood, as he was not a part of the deed. She also played an audio clip of Hussain Nawaz’s interview in which he claimed that his business was neither helped by any Middle East government nor by any Indian investor.
Shehla Raza said that Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif did not even mention these businesses despite having addressed the nation twice on this issue. She said that the previous statements were clearly in contradiction with the latest statements submitted by Hussain Nawaz’s lawyer in the court. She asked why the Qatari family helped Sharif family when the latter was completely bankrupt as per PM’s own statements. She said that PM’s family should sit down and decide on one lie they all need to speak, so that at least they’re not made to look like a joke in the public.
Responding to the allegations, PM’s spokesperson Dr Musaddiq Malik said that there was nothing contradictory between the statements given by PM, and his family, and the statements submitted by them in the court. He said that Hussain Nawaz had clearly stated in the interview presented by Shehla Raza that he wasn’t helped by the Qatari royal family. He said that the business wasn’t helped by anyone but an investment by Mian Muhammad Sharif, PM’s father, in al-Thani’s business in Qatar.
It is pertinent to mention here that Hussain Nawaz Sharif’s lawyer had submitted a letter by Hamad bin Jasim bin Jaber al-Thani in the court today, stating that PM’s father and his father had longstanding business relations and Mian Sharif had invested 12 million AED in Qatari family’s business in 1981. The letter stated that the ‘properties Flat # 17, Flat # 17a, Flat # 16, Flat # 16a at Avenfield House, Park Lane, London were registered in the ownership of two offshore companies, bearer share certificates of which were kept during that time in Qatar’.
The letter went on to state that the flats were used by Sharif family on account of the relationship between the two families. Al-Thani said that he recalled that PM’s father had wished during his lifetime ‘that the beneficiary of his investment and returns in the real estate business is his Grandson, Mr. Hussain Nawaz Sharif’.
The letter concluded that ‘the accounts in relation to the above statement were settled between Mr. Hussain Nawaz Sharif & Al Thani family, who then delivered the bearer shares of the companies … to a representative of Mr. Hussain Nawaz Sharif’.
Hamad bin Jasim s letter submitted in Supreme Court by Hussain Nawaz Sharif
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