{"id":5981,"date":"2018-08-03T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2018-08-04T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T08:48:48","slug":"overseas-pakistanis-commissioner-afzal-bhatti-informed-the-supreme-court-that-he-is-not-a-pakistani-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/2018\/08\/03\/overseas-pakistanis-commissioner-afzal-bhatti-informed-the-supreme-court-that-he-is-not-a-pakistani-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas Pakistanis Commissioner Afzal Bhatti  informed the Supreme Court that he is not a Pakistani citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Jameel Noori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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As the hearing went under way, the chief justice questioned Bhatti regarding his salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much salary have you been getting? Do you know that a dam is being built and all salaries above original pay are being collected for its donation,\u201d Justice Nisar remarked. The chief justice continued, \u201cAfzal Bhatti, I have an offer for you. Return the money that you have received above your original pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further during the heating, DG NAB Lahore Major (retd) Saleem Shahzad informed the bench, \u201cBhatti served as former premier Nawaz Sharif\u2019s secretary and as Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s political secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBhatti does not even have the experience required to be an overseas commissioner,\u201d the DG NAB Lahore asserted and presented an audit report to the three-member bench.<\/p>\n<p>Major (retd) Saleem Shahzad explained that a selection committee had forwarded three names to then Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif for consideration for the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Shehbaz\u2019s approval, Bhatti was appointed overseas commissioner,\u201d the DG NAB Lahore said.\u201cHe received a salary of Rs0.5million,\u201d he continued.To this, the chief justice asked Bhatti, \u201cWill you return the amount over the original pay or should we send the reference to NAB?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Bhatti said, \u201cI challenge NAB\u2019s audit report.\u201d Justice Nisar then directed NAB to hear Bhatti\u2019s statements and file a reference against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0686\u06cc\u0641 \u062c\u0633\u0679\u0633 \u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u062c\u0633\u0679\u0633 \u0645\u06cc\u0627\u06ba \u062b\u0627\u0642\u0628 \u0646\u062b\u0627\u0631 \u06a9\u06cc \u0633\u0631\u0628\u0631\u0627\u06c1\u06cc \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0648\u0631\u0633\u06cc\u0632 \u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646\u06cc\u0632 \u06a9\u0645\u06cc\u0634\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0633\u0631\u0628\u0631\u0627\u06c1 \u06a9\u06d2 \u062a\u0642\u0631\u0631 \u06a9\u06d2 \u062e\u0644\u0627\u0641 \u0627\u0632 \u062e\u0648\u062f \u0646\u0648\u0679\u0633 \u06a9\u06cc\u0633 \u06a9\u06cc \u0633\u0645\u0627\u0639\u062a \u06c1\u0648\u0626\u06cc\u06d4 \u0688\u06cc \u062c\u06cc \u0646\u06cc\u0628 \u0644\u0627\u06c1\u0648\u0631 \u0633\u0644\u06cc\u0645 \u0634\u06c1\u0632\u0627\u062f \u0622\u0688\u0679 \u0631\u067e\u0648\u0631\u0679 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0633\u0627\u062a\u06be \u067e\u06cc\u0634 \u06c1\u0648\u0626\u06d2\u06d4 \u0628\u06cc\u0646\u0686 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0633\u0627\u0645\u0646\u06d2 \u06cc\u06c1 \u0627\u0646\u06a9\u0634\u0627\u0641 \u06c1\u0648\u0627 \u06a9\u06c1 \u0627\u0641\u0636\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u06be\u0679\u06cc \u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646\u06cc \u0634\u06c1\u0631\u06cc \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4 \u0639\u062f\u0627\u0644\u062a\u06cc \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0641\u0633\u0627\u0631 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u0641\u0636\u0627\u0644 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dailynews","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothwar.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}