Pak court rejects Sharif's plea to merge 3 graft cases

November 08, 2017 15:44

Pakistan's anti-graft court today rejected ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's plea for clubbing together three corruption cases filed against him by the country's anti-corruption watchdog in the Panama Papers scandal.

After the announcement of the judgement, Sharif was indicted separately in each of the three graft cases stemming from the Panama Papers leaks.

Now, 67-year-old Sharif will have to face three separate trials with hearings stretching out for months. The former prime minister pleaded not guilty to all the charges and contented that he was being deprived of the fair trial as the court was moving in a hurry to decide the case in six months as per direction of the Supreme Court. -- PTI

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