Tuesday, August 15, 2023
PTI's lawful group goes with Bushra Bibi to DIG office.
Bushra appeares before JIT following 2-hour meeting with Imran Khan.
Legitimate group says Bushra Bibi stayed with JIT for 20 minutes.
ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, who is the previous first woman and spouse of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Director Imran Khan, Tuesday showed up before a joint examination group (JIT) regarding the Toshakhana case.
The previous first woman arrived at the DIG Office in Islamabad joined by the PTI's legitimate group where she was examined by the examination group testing the Toshakhana case.
The advancement comes after Bushra Bibi met Imran Khan in Attock prison recently, the sources said, adding that their gathering went on for around two hours.
She had left for the DIG office after her gathering with Khan, the sources added. The meeting court had coordinated Bushra Bibi to join the examination group.
Addressing media people after the appearance before the JIT, PTI legitimate group's Quratul Ain said that Bushra Bibi went through cross examination for around 20 minutes.
The JIT posed 20 inquiries from the previous first woman and she responded to the inquiries in general, Quratul Ain said.
A first data report (FIR) was recorded at Islamabad's Kohsar police headquarters against Imran Khan — who was imprisoned recently in the wake of being sentenced in the Toshakhana case and has been banished from governmental issues for a long time, keeping him from challenging an impending political race — his better half, ex-responsibility ruler Shahzad Akbar and others.
They have been blamed for committing misrepresentation, imitation to cheat and introducing a phony receipt of the complainant's business letterhead wherein misleading receipt showing deal acquisition of gifts, for example, watches, sleeve buttons were deceitfully gotten from Toshakhana with bogus marks was ready.
What is Toshakhana case?
Under the principles overseeing Toshakhana — a Persian word signifying "treasury" — government authorities can keep gifts in the event that they have a low worth, while they should pay an emphatically diminished charge to the public authority for excessive things.
The Toshakhana has been under a magnifying lens since the rise of the charges that Khan bought the presents he got as state leader at expendable rates and auctions them off in the open market for stunning benefits.
The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-legislator was blamed for abusing his 2018 to 2022 prevalence to trade presents in state ownership that were gotten during visits abroad and worth more than Rs140 million ($635,000).
The gifts included watches given by an illustrious family, as per government authorities, who have claimed beforehand that Khan's helpers sold them in Dubai.
Besides, seven wristwatches, six made by watchmaker Rolex, and the most costly a "Expert Graff restricted version" esteemed at 85 million Pakistani rupees ($385,000), was likewise among the gifts.
A reference was sent by Public Gathering Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf to the Political race Commission requesting that it test the matter.
In October 2022, the discretionary body proclaimed the previous chief at fault for degenerate practices and documented a protest in an Islamabad court.
