A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will announce its verdict on Nawaz Sharif's appeal against his conviction in the plane hijacking case today (Friday).Headed by Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, the five-member SC bench consists of Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Ghulam Rabbani, Justice Mohammad Moosa K Leghari and Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali. Earlier on June 18, the same bench had reserved the verdict after the counsels for both sides had concluded their arguments.
Nawaz was sentenced to life imprisonment twice by the Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court (APC) in April 2000, after the APC found him guilty of refusing to allow a commercial aircraft -- carrying Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, the army chief at that time, along with 200 other passengers -- to land at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, Karachi on October 12, 1999.