Pak court not to summon Sharif in assets case

A Pakistani court on Friday turned down the request of a petitioner to summon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a two-decade-old case against him for allegedly possessing assets worth billions of rupees abroad.

A five-member bench of Lahore High Court headed by Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan observed that the court would not summon the prime minister before deciding the maintainability of the petition. Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery, counsel for petitioner Ali Imran, said if his client failed to prove Sharif’s assets abroad he would quit Pakistan.