Graft verdict: Court to take up Sharif family’s appeals today

Islamabad, July 16 

Jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law on Monday filed separate appeals challenging the verdict in a corruption case and the Islamabad High Court issued an urgent cause list to hear them tomorrow.

Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London. They were later taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.  Sharif’s son-in-law, Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar is also lodged in the same jail.

Seven separate appeals were filed in the Islamabad High Court by the three convicts’ lawyers — three on behalf of Sharif, and two each on behalf of Maryam and Safdar — on the corruption cases against them.

Hours after the three filed separate appeals through their counsels, Islamabad HC Chief Justice Anwar Khan Kasi constituted a two-member Vench to hear the appeals. The court also listed on its website the hearing of appeals as urgent and set tomorrow the date for hearing.

Today was the last day of filing appeals as under law the convicts can file appeals within 10 days of conviction by an accountability court. — PTI