Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Monday reserved a verdict against Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan in the Tosha Khana reference, one of the major alleged scandals involving the sale of watches and other gifts — he received from heads of states — from a state depository where gifts are kept before they were sold by paying a certain sum of the total price of the gift.
Tosha Khana case
When Additional and Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal took up the case, Saad Hassan, who appeared in the court on behalf of the Election Commission of Pakistan, said that Imran Khan has confessed that a road was built with the money he received by selling a watch.
In 2018, a law was passed to acquire a gift by depositing 20 per cent of the money in the Tosha Khana. The Imran-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government increased the amount from 20 to 50 per cent.
Saad Hassan said that Imran Khan failed to tell how much the watch was finally sold for. The lawyer of the election commission said that the case was not about the watch but rather it was about the assets and the gifts Imran Khan and his wife took away 58 gifts from Tosha Khana.
He argued that the value of 58 items taken by Imran Khan in three years was Rs142 million in 2018/19. He said that Imran Khan took gifts worth about Rs107 million from Tosha Khana.
He said Imran Khan said that all the gifts or property taken by Imran Khan in 2018-19 will be considered his assets and all these assets should have been disclosed before the election commission.
He said that Imran Khan also took jewelry from Tosha Khana but did not reveal it
