Suleman Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Twitter

ISLAMABAD: Suleman Sharif, son of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen, ?a known sugar DON who has stashed money in offshore?.

Suleman?s hard-hitting comments were in reply to Tareen?s tweet, in which the PTI leader alleged that: ?Ramzan Sugar Mills owned directly by Shohbaz Sharif paying farmers Rs 150 instead of Rs 180 and underweighing by 15/20%. All Sharif family mills openly breaking the law and entire Punjab Admin have their heads in the sand......Shame on you SS for stealing from farmers?.

Suleman alleged that instead of the set government price, Tareen is paying 120 rupees with 20 percent deduction on weight to sugar cane growers.

The Sharif family scion also stated that Tareen holds swiss accounts.

Tareen's disqualification

The Supreme Court, in its Dec 15 judgment, disqualified Tareen as he failed to declare in his nomination papers the Hyde House property or SVL, the off-shore company established for the property. The apex court verdict said that Tareen was infact "the actual, true, real and beneficial owner of the said property".

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"SVL or Hyde House was never transferred to any trust by the respondent, thus, it is his asset which he has failed to declare in his nomination papers filed on 9.9.2015 according to the mandate of the law to contest the by-elections from NA-154 Lodhran and, therefore, he is not honest in terms of Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution read with Section 99(1)(f) of ROPA," read the Supreme Court's order.

The apex court added that Tareen had made "a blatant misstatement...before the highest judicial forum of the country", claiming he had "no beneficial interest in the trust arrangement which holds the SVL and the Hyde House" while he was infact a ?discretionary lifetime beneficiary? along with his spouse.

Therefore, he is declared "not to be an honest person in terms of the constitutional provisions and the provisions of ROPA".

The judgment further stated that the PTI secretary general had pleaded guilty to insider trading.

The court ruled that Tareen used suspicious terms in his statements to the court.