Sharif family to challenge Avenfield verdict: Report

July 07, 2018 16:26

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family are all set to challenge the accountability court's verdict in the Avenfield reference case in the Islamabad high court.

The Sharif family will challenge the verdict in the IHC on July 9, Geo TV reported, citing anonymous sources, as saying.

Sharif was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of eight million on Friday in the Avenfield case, while his daughter, Maryam, was sentenced to 7 years of jail and fined two million.

With this ruling, Maryam is barred from contesting the general elections.

Her husband Captain Muhammad Safdar (retd) was also sentenced to one year of imprisonment.

Sharif and Maryam are in London since June 14 visiting the former's wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, who is undergoing cancer treatment there.

According to the report, the defence lawyers have intimated their clients that the likelihood of getting any relief in the sentence would be difficult if they fail to return to Pakistan within ten days.

Addressing a press conference in London, Sharif claimed that he was being punished because he was changing the legacy of Pakistan's 70-year-old history.

The three-time former prime minister did not give a specific date for returning to Pakistan.

-- ANI

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