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Arsalan refutes Abidi’s allegations
ISLAMABAD: Refuting the allegations hurled by Senator Faisal Raza Abidi, Arsalan Iftikhar says he has never used the address of Chief Justice House for commercial purpose.Arsalan, who has been accused of taking bribe in the name of his father from Malik Riaz Hussain, now faces serious allegations from PPP Senator Faisal Raza Abidi and this time too it’s the chief justice who is being targeted.
In a statement issued here on Monday, Arsalan said none of his agreements have address of CJ’s House and all the tax returns to the Federal Bureau of Revenue can be seen. There is no mention of CJP House in them.
“No agreement with client is done with this address. All agreements with clients can be seen for proof. FAE (Pvt) Ltd was established on February 4, 2010 registered at address 97 A/3 Gulberg III Lahore. No account of FAE (Pvt) Ltd opened at CJ’s House address ever. F&A Enterprises is an old company established in 2004. It was established in Quetta. We opened its account in Silk Bank (Saudi Pak) in November 2008 at the time of when my father was deposed.
At that time address was given only for bank statement and necessary correspondence. In Jan 2012 this was also shifted to Gulberg office address, Arsalan mentioned in his statement.
He also mentioned that he did not have Rs900 million. “In fact I do not have cash more than Rs3 crore. My office, accommodation and vehicle are on rental. I have no property in Pakistan or abroad. I do not have any foreign account anywhere in the world. All the payments received are cross cheques. Whose record is also with FBR.”
He said his companies generally deal with telecom sector and provide them different services from network management to build out of new network, laying of optic fibre and installation of telecom equipment on sites and that he does not have even a single contract with government of Pakistan.
“There is no abrupt surge in our growth, our business is very critical, we work non-stop 24/7, if we show even slightest of laxity, we get huge penalties, that is the reason, we provide best services in Pakistan and based on our services, our valuable clients treat us well and enhance our scope of work. No telecom company can take risk as slightest of negligence cost huge losses in dollars. Hence all our work is based on merit and performance,” the statement adds.
He said his legal team would send a legal notice worth Rs10 billion to an English daily for its irresponsible story dated 3rd August 2012, for his character assassination, by doing one sided story and not containing other side’s version. “We are also lodging an FIR against Faisal Abidi,” the statement concludes.
Courtesy www.geo.tv