The verdict was earlier to be announced at 12:30pm, then at 2:30pm, 3pm and 3:30pm
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 6th July, 2018) The Accountability Court will now announce the verdict in Avenfield Reference at 3:30pm after delaying it for the fourth time today.
Earlier, the Accountability Court while rejecting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's plea to defer the verdict in Avenfield reference, was to announce the verdict in the case at 12:30pm today.
However, it later delayed the verdict to 2:30pm and then at 3pm, which will now be announced at 3pm.
Accountability Court judge Muhammad Bashir said that the verdict is being delayed as it is being photocopied.
"The photocopies of the judgment are being made. Wait a little more," he said.
The Accountability Court of Islamabad had on Tuesday fixed July 6 to announce its judgment in the Avenfield London property reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his children.
The court reserved its judgment after the two sides concluded their final arguments in the reference against Sharif family members. The court has conducted proceedings of the reference for nine months and twenty days.
However, former prime minister and PMLN supremo Nawaz Sharif had on Wednesday asked the Accountability Court to defer the verdict in the Avenfield case for some days, till the health of his wife improves.
Speaking to media outside the Harley Clinic here, he said the courts reserved decisions for months but he wants that the Accountability Court to not announce decision in his case for some days.
He said he wanted to hear the verdict in the court along with his daughter, who was with him and appeared in the court for about 100 times.
He said he would return to Pakistan whether the decision was in his favour or not. "I will return as soon as Kulsoom's health improves. She underwent an operation yesterday."
The former prime minister said that court announced the verdict on the eligibility of a person from Rawalpindi after reserving the decision for three months. "I am not asking for three months, but a relief for some days. I am not a dictator who will run away from the courts," he said.
