ISLAMABAD: Justice Asif Saeed Khosa who disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not being honest to the nation commenced his dissenting judgement by quoting from Mario Puzo`s popular 1969 novel The Godfather recounting the violent tale of a mafia family.

`Behind every great fortune there is a crime,` the judgement cited, saying the novel was a popular sensation which was made into an acclaimed film. The 192-page dissenting judgement consumed the major bulk of a total of 548 pages.

It is ironical and sheer coincidence that the present case revolves around that very sentence attributed by Puzo to Honore de Balzac since PTPs chief Imran Khan through his petition alleged that the prime minister while holding high public offices over a stretched period of time and his immediate family amassed huge wealth and assets acquired through illegal and unfair means and practices which were unlawful and corrupt and exercise of public authority which was misused and abused, according to the judgement.

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