ISLAMABAD: In a serious aid to ex-Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif‘s household, an anti-corruption court docket on Thursday cancelled the everlasting arrest warrants in opposition to his two sons, who just lately returned from the UK after a seven-year self-imposed exile. Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz left the nation in 2018 after they have been named within the 2016 Panama Papers scandal.
They confronted fees in three corruption instances associated to the Panama Papers however by no means appeared earlier than the courts, which declared them absconders.
The brothers returned to Pakistan on Tuesday after an Islamabad anti-corruption court docket on March 7 suspended the perpetual arrest warrants in opposition to the 2 till Thursday, clearing the final hurdle for his or her secure return to the nation.
On Thursday, Hassan and Hussain appeared on the Islamabad-based Accountability Court docket, which, after listening to the arguments, cancelled the everlasting arrest warrant issued within the Flagship, Al-Azizia and Avenfield corruption instances.
The court docket additionally accepted their bail in opposition to a surety bond value Rs 50,000 every.
Each sons of the previous prime minister additionally utilized for exemption from attending court docket on the subsequent listening to. The court docket adjourned the listening to until Friday.
The brothers, who’re British nationals, have been implicated within the instances in 2018 together with their father, Nawaz Sharif, sister Maryam Nawaz and her husband, Muhammad Safdar.
Nawaz Sharif, Maryam and Safdar have been convicted within the Avenfield whereas the three-time former premier was additionally convicted within the Al-Azizia instances and acquitted within the Flagship case.
All of them individually challenged convictions within the Islamabad Excessive Court docket. Maryam and Safdar have been the primary to get aid in 2022 once they have been acquitted whereas Nawaz Sharif was nonetheless residing in London. Final 12 months, he returned and, after temporary proceedings, was acquitted in all instances.
After their acquittal, solely the 2 brothers have been required to face the courts, as they weren’t formally tried as a consequence of their absence. Like their father, the 2 brothers are more likely to get acquitted in all three instances because the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had instituted these instances in opposition to them, has given them a clear chit.
For the reason that Sharif household and their celebration — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — are being patronage by the present army institution, all of the instances in opposition to them have both been closed or acquitted.
In October final 12 months, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after a four-year self-imposed exile within the UK, and after temporary proceedings, he was acquitted in all instances.
His youthful brother, Shehbaz Sharif, was elected as Pakistan’s prime minister for a second time after the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Get together agreed on a power-sharing deal to kind a coalition authorities.
Maryam, the 50-year-old daughter of Nawaz Sharif, took oath because the first-ever lady chief minister of Pakistan’s most populous and politically essential Punjab province on February 26.
They confronted fees in three corruption instances associated to the Panama Papers however by no means appeared earlier than the courts, which declared them absconders.
The brothers returned to Pakistan on Tuesday after an Islamabad anti-corruption court docket on March 7 suspended the perpetual arrest warrants in opposition to the 2 till Thursday, clearing the final hurdle for his or her secure return to the nation.
On Thursday, Hassan and Hussain appeared on the Islamabad-based Accountability Court docket, which, after listening to the arguments, cancelled the everlasting arrest warrant issued within the Flagship, Al-Azizia and Avenfield corruption instances.
The court docket additionally accepted their bail in opposition to a surety bond value Rs 50,000 every.
Each sons of the previous prime minister additionally utilized for exemption from attending court docket on the subsequent listening to. The court docket adjourned the listening to until Friday.
The brothers, who’re British nationals, have been implicated within the instances in 2018 together with their father, Nawaz Sharif, sister Maryam Nawaz and her husband, Muhammad Safdar.
Nawaz Sharif, Maryam and Safdar have been convicted within the Avenfield whereas the three-time former premier was additionally convicted within the Al-Azizia instances and acquitted within the Flagship case.
All of them individually challenged convictions within the Islamabad Excessive Court docket. Maryam and Safdar have been the primary to get aid in 2022 once they have been acquitted whereas Nawaz Sharif was nonetheless residing in London. Final 12 months, he returned and, after temporary proceedings, was acquitted in all instances.
After their acquittal, solely the 2 brothers have been required to face the courts, as they weren’t formally tried as a consequence of their absence. Like their father, the 2 brothers are more likely to get acquitted in all three instances because the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had instituted these instances in opposition to them, has given them a clear chit.
For the reason that Sharif household and their celebration — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — are being patronage by the present army institution, all of the instances in opposition to them have both been closed or acquitted.
In October final 12 months, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after a four-year self-imposed exile within the UK, and after temporary proceedings, he was acquitted in all instances.
His youthful brother, Shehbaz Sharif, was elected as Pakistan’s prime minister for a second time after the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Get together agreed on a power-sharing deal to kind a coalition authorities.
Maryam, the 50-year-old daughter of Nawaz Sharif, took oath because the first-ever lady chief minister of Pakistan’s most populous and politically essential Punjab province on February 26.
