ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ignored on Monday a request to make a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf chairman Imran Khan and secretary general Jehangir Tareen part of the Panama Papers case hearing.

A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, however, said the court would take a decision on such petitions on Nov 15 after going through documents submitted by the parties in the case.

The court issued notices to the respondents made in the petition moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi, namely Mr Khan, Mr Tareen, the Federal Board of Revenue, Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan and the chief commissioner of Islamabad.

Mr Abbasi has filed two separate petitions through senior counsel Akram Sheikh in which he has accused Mr Khan and Mr Tareen of filing false declarations in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He alleged that the PTI leaders did not include their all assets in the declarations and also did not men-tion existence of their offshore companies. He accused the PTI of being a foreignaided party.

The petitions requested the court to order the two PTI leaders to explain under which authority they were holding membership of the National Assembly. It said both Mr Khan and Mr Tareen should be disqualified from their respective constituencies and declared ineligible to hold or retain any of fice of a registered political party as provided under the Political Parties Order, 2002.

The petitions also asked the apex court to declare the PTI a foreign-aided party and order investigation against it and its chairman for hiding their assets.

Referring to the petition against Mr Khan, the petitioner alleged that the PTI chief violated the Income Tax Ordinance, 1979, by allegedly not declaring his off-shore company Messrs Niazi Services Limited (NSL) his statement of assets and liabilities filed in the ECP with nomination papers for different general elections, indulging that of 2013.

The petitioner alleged that the NSL since its incorporation had been regularly filing its annual returns as required under the applicable laws of Jersey, Channel Islands, as well as its state-ment of annual share capital and shares required under the applicable laws of Jersey.

A statement of the company for the year 1988 was submitted through its directors, Uzma Khan and Aleema Khan sisters of Mr Khan.

Mr Abbasi alleged that the NSL was alive till October 2015, but Mr Khan had failed to disclose his ownership interest in the company and this fact was later admitted by him publicly when he said that he had incorporated an offshore company to avoid taxes in the United Kingdom. The incorporation of an off-shore company had also been admitted by Mr Khan in a recent media talk at London`s Heathrow Airport, the petition said.

In addition, the petition said, Mr Khan wilfully concealed his investment of Rs2.97 million to purchase a luxury apartment in Grand Hyatt located at the Constitution Avenue, Islamabad, in his declaration of assets for tax year 2014, furnished by him to the ECP.

According to the petition, this non-disclosure of assets is a clear violation of Sections 12(2)(f) and 42A, read with Section 82 of the Representation of People Act, 1976. Hence, Mr Khan was liable to be disqualified on this account alone, the petition said.