Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Wednesday, the Supreme Court told the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to give them the full record of Sharmila Faruqui’s case as leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
A three-person SC bench made up of Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, and Justice Ayesha A Malik heard the case brought by the NAB chairman against Mrs. Sharmila Faruqi and others about the effect of the plea bargain on being disqualified from holding a public office.
The NAB prosecutor general said that Sharmila Faruqui was sentenced to five years in prison and 21 years of not being able to vote in 2001.
He said that in 2016, NAB sent a letter about Sharmila Faruqui to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He also said that the ECP had been told that Sharmila was not qualified to hold any public office.
He said that Sharmila Farooqui took NAB’s letter to the Sindh High Court and got her sentence and the letter was thrown out.
When Sharmila didn’t file an appeal against the sentence, the chief justice asked how the high court could end it.
During the dictatorship, Sharmila’s lawyer said that it would be pointless to try to change the sentence.
The chief justice said that the Supreme Court had thrown out the conviction of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the case about the plane. He also said that Nawaz Sharif had said that he could not file the review petition on time because he was in exile.
He said that the Supreme Court agreed with Nawaz Sharif that people couldn’t go back to the country.
He wanted to know how the court could get rid of Sharmila Farooqui’s sentence by itself.
After that, the case was put off until today in the office.
