ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday sent out notices to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) over ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s petition challenging the accountability court’s dismissal of his application to club three corruption references against him and his family into one.
In his petition, Nawaz requested the high court to set aside the verdict of the accountability court through which it had rejected his plea.
Meanwhile, the bench rejected a miscellaneous application of the former prime minister seeking to restrain the trial court from proceeding in the NAB references until his application is decided.
The hearing was then adjourned till Nov 20.
The petition moved by Nawaz’s lawyer Azam Tarar claimed that the accountability court had reached the decision in haste without giving due consideration to the points highlighted in the earlier IHC verdict.
According to the petition, the IHC had directed the accountability court to frame one charge and conduct a single trial against the Sharif family in the three corruption references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
On Nov 8, Nawaz had accused the superior judiciary of being prejudiced against him, as the accountability court hearing corruption cases against the Sharif family had rejected an application filed by the disqualified premier for clubbing together the three references, and indicted him separately in each of the three references.
The corruption references had been filed by NAB in the light of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Panama Papers case on July 28. Nawaz and his two sons, Hussain and Hasan, are nominated in all three references whereas his daughter Maryam and her husband have been named accused in one reference.
In a detailed verdict of the court issued on Nov 10, the court had ruled that the three references comprise different charges, as opposed to the petitioner’s claim that the accusations are the same. Moreover, the judge stated that only two witnesses are common among the three references, denying another assertion by Nawaz in his petition.
Moreover, the judge had also remarked that the petitioner wanted to make things easier for himself by getting the three references clubbed.
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I believe The Godfather is history. Oh well
He can play all the delaying games, he can make all the excuses in the wold, he can resort to all the chicanery he and his daughter can muster, but he cannot produce the much asked for evidence because he is guilty as sin. If he produces the actual money trial, it will prove him guilty as sin, if he doesn’t produce this evidence which is mandatory to produce, the court will find him guilty. The Mafia dawn knows, his days are numbered, for decades he has looted the state and lived in luxury as a paracite at state’s expense, some he will be resident of Adiala jail till the end of his days.
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