Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Thursday, Islamabad High Court (IHC) cleared party Vice President Maryam Nawaz and her husband, Captain Safdar, of corruption charges in the Avenfield case. This was a big legal win for PML-N.
Her appeal against the conviction was heard by Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani of the IHC.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said that she helped her father, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, commit the crime.
In the Avenfield properties case, on July 6, 2018, an accountability court gave former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 10 years in prison and a fine of £8 million. Maryam got 7 years in prison and a fine, and Captain Safdar got 1 year in prison.
The leader of the PML-N had decided on the accountability court to the IHC.
Nab couldn’t prove claims against Maryam
Justice Aamer Farooq was in charge of the hearing today about Maryam’s appeal against her sentence. After hearing all of the arguments, he said that the prosecution’s case might be true, but it didn’t prove the charges.
At first, NAB Deputy Prosecutor General Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi said that Tariq Shafi’s affidavit about the sale of the Gulf Steel Mills was read into the record.
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Abbasi said that the SC had a clear problem with how the steel mills were set up because Shafi had not shown that he was a partner in the business.
At this point, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said that the investigation officer’s opinion cannot be used as proof.
“The JIT didn’t give any facts; it just gave the information it had gathered,” he said.
At this point, Justice Farooq asked how all of this proves that the petitioners did what was said about them.
“Show how Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif are connected to the case of having too much money,” he said.
“We can’t make a decision based on what the public knows or hearsay,” the judge said before putting off a decision on Maryam’s plea.
We have been proven right: Maryam
Maryam told reporters after the IHC decision that she was thankful to Allah for making her and Nawaz proud today.
“This is how lies end,” Maryam said as she thanked her lawyers for fighting for her case for so long. While she was talking to the reporters, she also got a call from her “uncle.”
Maryam also said that no other political leader in the country’s history has been held as accountable as Nawaz. “Since I was found not guilty, he respects me more than ever.”
The PML-N vice president said that even though Nawaz was told not to go to hearings in the Avenfield case, he and his children still had to go to court.
Maryam then asked PTI Chairman Imran Khan what he would do now that he was “a liar and a conspirator” and Nawaz had won.
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Maryam told Khan that he is now “helpless” and that history will make sure he has to answer for what he has done, even if he doesn’t want to.
Maryam said, in response to a question that the case against her was started before PTI came to power and that other people were behind it, “Who benefited from all this? If Nawaz had stayed in power, Imran could not have come to power in three lifetimes.”
What Maryam said
The leader of the PML-N had asked the IHC to review her conviction in the reference case.
In her petition, filed through Lawyer Irfan Qadir, Maryam called the verdict “a classic example of outright violations of laws and political engineering that has never been seen in the history of Pakistan.”
The petition said, “The Supreme Court supervised the whole process of the investigation of the case and the prosecution.”
She said that “filing three separate references in the case of assets is also against the law.” She also said that the accountability court judge would know why he didn’t notice these facts.
The petition said that the top court’s “role in the Constitution is neither that of an investigator nor that of a prosecutor.”
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“NAB is required to be open about its investigations,” the petition said.
The plea also mentioned Shokat Aziz Siddiqi’s speech to the bar when he was a judge at the IHC.
“The judge said that he had talked to the Chief Justice of Pakistan. We won’t let Nawaz Sharif and his daughter go until the elections,” the petition said judge Siddiqi said in the address.
The plea also said that Siddiqi’s comments made it seem like the verdict of the case was unfair.
In her petition, Maryam also said that the video of former accountability judge Arshad Malik showed that the cases against the Sharif family were rigged.
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