Judge Excused From Hearing Al-Azizya And Flagship References<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEarlier last week, the accountability court judge had adjourned the hearing of Al-Azizia Steel Mills Reference against Sharif family till July 12, while Khawaja Harris, the counsel of PML-N supremo had raised objection on Muhammad Bashir over hearing of other two references.<\/p>\n
Khawaja Harris said that Muhammad Bashir had given verdict in Avenfield reference so he cannot hear the other two references. It is pertinent here to mention that on Friday, accountability court Judge Muhammad Bashir had sentenced Nawaz Sharif to 10 years, his daughter Maryam to seven years and son-in-law, Muhammad Safdar to one-year imprisonment in a corruption case named Avenfield Apartment reference.<\/p>\n
The sentences, delivered in absentia, against Nawaz Sharif and his daughter who is widely seen as his political heir, have dealt a blow to their Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. On Saturday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz minutes after they landed at Lahore\u2019s Allama Iqbal International Airport.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were then shifted to Adiala jail where they were given B-class facilities. The father-daughter duo had returned to Pakistan from London after being convicted in the Avenfield property case.<\/p>\n
The ex-premier s son-in-law was already arrested and currently serving his one-year prison sentence on the same charge, which stems from the purchase of luxury apartments in Britain that the court said were bought with illegally gotten money. The Avenfield reference is one of the three corruption references, filed by the National Accountability Bureau(NAB) on orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), which disqualified Nawaz Sharif, ousting him from premiership and finding him guilty in the Panama Paper case verdict.<\/p>\n
The verdict came at a time when Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif were in London to see Begum Kulsum Nawaz Sharif who has been undergoing treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n
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