ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday criticized the country’s accountability system, which was allegedly used to target the Sharif family after the acquittal of Muslim League (N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz in the Avenfield corruption case. had gone.
The Prime Minister took to Twitter after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) verdict accepting the Muslim League-N leader’s plea against his conviction.
The edifice of lies, slander and character assassination has collapsed today. “The acquittal of Maryam Nawaz in the Avenfield reference is a slap in the face of the so-called accountability system that was used to target the Sharif family,” the Prime Minister said while congratulating his niece and her husband Safdar.
The Accountability Court sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison with a fine of 8 million pounds, Maryam to 7 years in prison and Captain (R) Safdar to one year in prison with a fine in the Avenfield Properties reference on 6 July 2018.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had accused the Muslim League (N) leader of implicating his father and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the crime.
A two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani heard his petition and pronounced the verdict after the arguments of the parties were completed.
In its verdict, the court said that NAB failed to prove the case against the accused.
