Nawaz Sharif acquitted in corruption case

PTI

Islamabad, December 12

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday acquitted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and former PM Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia Steel Mill corruption case, removing a major legal hurdle in his way to leading his party in the upcoming elections.

Nawaz, 73, was sentenced to seven years in jail by an anti-corruption court in December 2018 after he failed to convince the court that he had nothing to do with the steel mill set up by his father in Saudi Arabia in 2001.

He has already been acquitted in the Avenfield case in which he was convicted in July 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in Jail. He also got relief in the Flagship corruption case in which he was declared innocent by the court in 2018 but the acquittal was challenged in the IHC by the National Accountability Bureau. During today’s hearing, Sharif’s lawyer Amjad Pervaiz said that no evidence was presented against him.

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