The Islamabad High Court (IHC) said on Tuesday that former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif got relief because National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) refused to arrest the former PM.
On October 19, the IHC granted a two-day protective bail to the former prime minister in the Al-Azizia and Avenfield references.
The decision was then followed by the IHC’s verdict on October 26, which restored Nawaz’s appeals against his conviction by accountability courts in the two cases and also granted him bail.
The court restored Nawaz Sharif’s application against sentence in the Avenfield and Al-Azizia cases “due to explicit and unambiguous stance” taken by the anti-graft body of not objecting to the petitioner’s plea.
“Since the learned prosecutor general, NAB did not oppose the applications for the restoration/resurrection of the appeals, the applications are allowed and the appeals are restored with all legal consequences,” read the order by IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb.
“These applications were allowed, and the appeals were resurrected. They are to be heard and decided by this Court on merits,” the court added.
