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Decision on graft
cases against Sharifs tomorrow
ISLAMABAD An accountability court will pronounce on Monday its ruling on a plea by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to restore three corruption references against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and his family.Seeing as just about everyone in Pak politics is corrupt, it's going to be hard for the court to say no, unless they grade on a curve, in which case they still can't say no ... The court headed by Justice Wamiq Javed of Accountability Court-2 in Rawalpindi had last week reserved verdict on the NAB petition and was due to announce it on Saturday but it has to been delayed till Monday because of two weekly holidays enforced by the federal government on courts as well for conserving energy. NAB wants to revive cases against Sharif Brothers for the last over a decade charging them of default on payment of loan by their industrial enterprise Ittefaq Foundaries, default on payment of tax by Hudabia Paper Mills and Raiwind Estate. The cases were adjourned indefinitely in 2001 after Nawaz Sharif, brother Shahbaz Sharif and other family members were exiled to live in Saudi Arabia for 10 years. The NAB has maintained that it is time that these cases be resumed as most of the family members are back in Pakistan. In earlier hearing, NAB Deputy Prosecutor-General Sultan Mansoor while giving arguments in the court said if no final decision would come then the court could review it. Posted by: Steve White 2010-04-25 |
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