The former prime minister and president of ruling party PML-N, Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz have arrived in Islamabad to appear before the accountability court on Tuesday in National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references.
ISLAMABAD, (Pakistan Point News - 29th Jan, 2018) : The former prime minister and president of ruling party PML-N, Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz have arrived in Islamabad to appear before the accountability court on Tuesday in National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references. Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz arrived in Islamabad from Lahore on a charted flight and went straight to Punjab House. Former PM will meet with party leaders, ministers and also consult them over the appearing before accountability court during his stay in Punjab House.
He will leave Punjab House for AC at 8:30 am in the morning. Earlier today, Islamabad High Court (IHC) has declared petition filed against ex-prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz’s anti-judiciary speeches as admissible. Justice Amir Farooq conducted hearing on the plea of Adnan Iqbal during which, the plaintiff said that Nawaz and Maryam are spreading anarchy against courts, adding that their speeches come under contempt of court therefore, launch investigation against them, he urged.
Earlier, Lahore High Court (LHC) had also issued notices to Sharif family in a case pertaining to anti-judiciary speeches. LHC had also merged contempt of court petitions against Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz. The judge asked advocate Azhar, why he is not approaching Supreme Court (SC) for this case over which, he responded that LHC can also hold proceeding on it. On August 10, Nawaz Sharif departed for Lahore from Islamabad via GT Road and reached on August 13 amid applause and love from the passionate Pakistan Muslim-League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters.
