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Asghar Khan Case: SC summons Brig retd Hamid Saeed

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SC summoned former officer of Military Intelligence Brig. Hamid Saeed on Wednesday.

A 3-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the proceedings of the Asghar Khan case on Tuesday.The Chief Justice remarked that IJI will not be formulated now and national interest lies with the democratic process.“The offices of the President, Army Chief and ISI Chief are very important and the President is most important office bearer and he/she has to take care, but unluckily President was involved in some activities and we are waiting for Aiwan-e-Saddar reply in this regard. If the reply was in negative then we may summon Ijlal Haider Zaidi”, the Chief Justice remarked.During the proceedings, Roidad Khan while recording his statement said that General Shujat used to oversee the political cell according to Rafi Raza report.He said that Rafi Raza report could be placed in the ‘Aiwan-e-Saddar’ or the Prime Minister Secretariat.Dr. Fareed Paracha, by submitting affidavit stated that Jamaat-e-Islami is taking part in the proceedings voluntarily with the permission of the court.He said that 5 million rupees were given in the general elections of 1990 as aid by being part of the IJI and former ISI Chief Lt. General (R) Asad Durrani blamed Jamaat-e-Islami in an unclear manner.By rejecting the allegations, Jamaat-e-Islami said that these allegations are baseless and no member had received money from any military or administrative institution.Counsel of Asghar Khan, Salman Akram Raja in his arguments said that Asad Durrani has accepted in his affidavit that he has distributed 70 million rupees out of 140 million rupees and rest of the money in the account was controlled by the ISI.The Chief Justice told Raja that ISI could be defamed in lights of his arguments.Raja said that the DG ISI had intervened in the process of elections.