Details of 'properties' gathered through surveillance: Justice Isa.

Byline: Nasir Iqbal

ISLAMABAD -- Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Monday reiterated before the Supreme Court that the details of the three alleged offshore properties were gathered through surveillance.

In a rejoinder submitted to the Supreme Court hearing the presidential reference, the petitioner judge pleaded that Abdul Waheed Dogar, on whose complaint the reference was filed in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against him, had not yet come up with any documentary evidence regarding the three offshore properties of his wife.

Similarly, the chairman of the Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) was also not forthcoming, the rejoinder said, adding the so-called documentary evidence was not attached to the complaint in the reference nor was filed any time thereafter.

After 14 months, the rejoinder regretted, the federal government had still not provided particulars of the alleged searchers said to have been carried out through the 192.com and the HM land registry search engines.

Even if for the sake of argument it is accepted that these searches were carried out, the name of the petitioner's wife as owner appears on the three properties and that of the daughter and son, the government did not file the complete record of even one search.

Thus, the rejoinder claimed, no search was ever conducted and the names and property details of the petitioner's family were gathered through surveillance.

The identity of those who had conducted the searches and those who paid for them is concealed and if these documents are provided, it will reveal that Abdul Waheed Dogar is an alleged proxy, the rejoinder said.

A question to be answered by the government is whether they are...