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SHC Forms Body to Unearth Quaid’s Lost Assets Bill Providing for Rapist’s US Properties: Zardari

Castration Adopted Gets Interim Bail
Karachi: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday ordered
constitution of a commission to conduct an investiga- Islamabad: The Criminal Law I s l a ma b ad:
tion and locate precious assets and belongings left by fa- (Amendment) Bill 2021 seeks to Theaccountabili-
ther of the nation Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah amend the Pakistan Penal Code, ty court of Islam-
and his sister Fatima Jinnah. 1860, and the Code of Criminal abad on Tuesday
A single-judge bench of the SHC headed by Jus- Procedure, 1898. — File granted pre-ar-
tice Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan noted that the properties Islamabad: One of the bills rest interim bail
as detailed in the around 50-year-old suit, including passed by the joint session of parlia- till Nov 23 to
cars, shares, jewelry and bank balances, were never ment on Wednesday provides for the former president
discovered while many other items that appeared in punishment of “chemical castration” Asif Ali Zardari
earlier reports of the nazirs were also missing in the of the habitual rapist. in the US properties case.
latest inventory prepared by an official assignee in The Criminal Law (Amend- Accountability Judge Azam
the light of its last order. ment) Bill 2021 seeks to amend Khan accepted the interim bail of Mr
The bench said that one-man commission to be the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, Zardari against Rs0.5 million surety
headed by retired Justice Faheem Ahmed Siddiqui and the Code of Criminal Proce- bonds.
will probe into the disappearance of several valued dure, 1898. According to the prosecution of
belongings and assets of Quaid-i-Azam and Fatima According to the bill, “chemical the National Accountability Bureau
Jinnah, adding that the commission would be em- castration is a process duly notified (NAB), Mr Zardari allegedly owned
powered to seek help of any government official and by rules framed by the prime min- an apartment in Belaire Condomini-
to call record from any institution in the regard. ister, whereby a person is rendered ums located at 524 East 72nd Street,
When the matter came up for hearing on Tues- incapable of performing sexual in- New York.
day, an assistant advocate general (AAG) contended tercourse for any period of his life, NAB had on June 15 issued a
that the Oct 13 order of bench about taking over the as may be determined by the court call-up notice to the former president,
possession of Qasr-e-Fatima, commonly known as through administration of drugs asking him to appear before a NAB
Mohatta Palace, by the official assignee and setting available with it to bring these assets to surface. which shall be conducted through a team on June 24 in connection with
up of a medical college on the premises had been The court further directed the official assignee notified medial board”. the investigation into the ownership
suspended by a two-judge division bench on Nov 8 to take over possession of the heritage property and Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Mush- of an apartment in New York.
on an intra-court appeal of the provincial govern- to make a list of all inventory available in the build- taq Ahmed protested over the bill Mr Zardari contended in the bail
ment. ing as well as ordered setting up a medical college and termed it un-Islamic and against petition that the call-up notice was
The AAG sought adjournment on the grounds with the consent of all parties. Sharia. He said a rapist should be issued at the behest of the Pakistan
that the advocate general of Sindh would himself ar- However, a division bench of the SHC had hanged publicly, but there was no Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government. He
gue the matter. restrained the official assignee from taking over mention of castration in Sharia. termed the call-up notice “baseless”
However, the counsel for the plaintiff pointed the possession of Qasr-e-Fatima till Nov 18 as the The Anti-Rape (Investigation and an attempt to malign him.
out that only the official assignee was restrained provincial government filed an intra-court appeal and Trial) Bill, 2021, providing for The petition rejected NAB’s claim
from taking possession of Mohatta Palace and rest of against the Oct 13 order of the single bench. the establishment of special courts that Mr Zardari was the owner of the
the order was still in field. Initially, the suit was filed by Hussain Waliji, a and use of modern devices during New York property and stated that the
The lawyer for Mohatta Palace Gallery Trust, relative of Fatima Jinnah, about the administration the investigation and trial of rape notice was issued to harass him and
which is currently maintaining the heritage prop- of her movable and immovable properties, includ- cases was also among those bills damage his reputation.
erty, filed an application to become intervener in the ing Qasr-e-Fatima, in 1971 and after the death of the passed during the joint sitting. Following the court’s proceed-
suit and the bench issued notices on the application original plaintiff his son Amir Ali was impleaded ing, the former president spoke to the
to the plaintiff as well as the defendants for Dec 8. as plaintiff, but he had also passed away during the succession certificate of such prop- media persons. He said those who had
In its Oct 13 order, the bench had resolved that pendency of this suit and his son Nazish Amir Ali erties to Shireen Jinnah, the only brought Imran Khan in power are re-
it would pursue recovery of all the listed assets left had become the part of proceedings. surviving sister of Fatima Jinnah gretting now and looking to take cor-
by the father of nation and his sister and use all force The litigation was initiated after the award of after her death on July 10, 1967. rective measures.

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