LAHORE: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was politically targeted through a reference at the behest of the former government and proper legal procedures were not followed to declare him an advertisement.
This was announced by an accountability court on Thursday in its detailed verdict regarding the acquittal of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo in a 37-year-old private property case.
The judgment said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials may have been forced to prepare the reference at the behest of the then ruling party in order to damage the political career and goodwill of the accused, who has served Pakistan three times. Served as the elected Prime Minister of
The court also ordered the NAB and the Revenue Board to freeze the properties of Nawaz Sharif and 27 shareholders.
On June 24, the court acquitted Nawaz Sharif in the case and the detailed verdict was issued on Thursday.
The judgment said that the legal procedure was not followed to declare the former prime minister as an advertisement.
“If the mandatory conditions are not fulfilled, then the entire process of declaring an accused ad libel becomes illegal and void,” the court added.
He said that the record shows that the accused Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was a target of political revenge and perhaps the NAB officials were forced to prepare the reference at the behest of the then ruling party in order to damage his political career and goodwill. could The accused, a three-time elected Prime Minister of Pakistan,” the verdict concluded.
Apart from this, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that it is imperative to rectify the actions taken against the former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz to improve the current crises in the country.
In a detailed statement on his official Twitter handle on Thursday, he said he knew from day one that ousted prime minister Nawaz was framed in the Panama Papers scandal “with the aim of ousting him from politics and bringing down his government”. .
The prime minister, who is also the president of the ruling Muslim League (N), said this while referring to recent revelations by senior PTI lawyer Hamid Khan, in which he claimed that Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification had already been decided elsewhere. It was taken while there is a decision of the Supreme Court. It was used to give legal cover.
Prime Minister Shehbaz wrote in a tweet, “Recent revelations by senior PTI lawyer and journalist how Nawaz Sharif was deliberately included in the Panama Papers to remove him from the government and ban him from politics. We’ve known since day one.”
However, the prime minister said the revelations regarding Nawaz’s incompetence were still “very important” as “the truth is coming out bit by bit”.
