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Aslam Beg disallowed to change counsel
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request by former army chief Mirza Aslam Beg
...the occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter was rubbed out died in an air crash in 1988. The general was involved up to his hairy ears in the Mehran bank scandal, shuffling millions in public money to buy or lease politicians, and is believed one of the prime movers in the sale of Pak nuclear technology to Iran. He ranks second only to Hamid Gul in the volume and flavor of his anti-Western vitriol..
 to be defended by a different counsel against charges that he played a role in 'polluting' the 1990 general elections.

Gen Beg had filed a petition on Nov 22, 2012, seeking a review to the October 19, 2012, apex court verdict in the Asghar Khan case ordering the federal government to initiate necessary action against him and former director general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) retired Lt-Gen Asad Durrani for their role in dishing out Rs140 million to a particular group of politicians.

On Monday, a three-judge bench, headed by Justice Saqib Nisar, disallowed senior counsel Ali Zafar to represent Gen Beg in place of Mohammad Akram Sheikh on the ground that he did not entertain a request similar to the one made by Asma Jahangir in the Sumaira Malik case.

The court, however, accepted Mr Zafar's request to help his client in case the court needed assistance on purely legal or technical questions.

Posted by: Fred 2015-12-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=438037