7-year jail term for Nawaz Sharif
December 24, 2018  15:57
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Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to 7 years in jail in the NAB reference case, but has been acquitted in the Flagship Reference case.


Pakistan's Accountability Court on Monday convicted the former prime minister and sentenced him to seven years in prison in Al Azizia case. The accountability court Judge, Muhammad Arshad Malik announced the verdict reserved after completion of hearing in Al-Azizia Steel Mills and the Flagship Investment cases against the deposed PM last week.

The court also imposed a fine of $25 million in the  Al Azizia case.


The accountability court had indicted Sharif for holding assets beyond his known sources of income in August 2017. Last week, the judge rejected an application by Sharif's lawyer Khawaja Harris to provide one week time to submit more documents but allowed him to provide any document by Friday last.


The judge also observed that the court was bound to follow the December 24 final deadline set by the Supreme Court.


Three cases - Avenfield properties case, Flagship Investment case and Al-Azizia steel mills case - were launched by the National Accountability Bureau on September 8, 2017 following a judgment by the top court that disqualified Sharif as prime minister.


Image: Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif with his daughter Maryam at Abu Dhabi airport in July.
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