Nawaz Sharif gets a sigh of relief from IHC
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ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday accepted a petition moved by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to club together three separate accountability references pending against him, ordering an accountability court which had dismissed the request earlier to consider the case again.
In doing so, the IHC set aside the October 19 decision of the accountability court to turn down the petition.
Sharif's lawyer, Azam Nazir Tarar, said today that the accountability court had not provided any reasoning for the rejection of Sharif's earlier petition; therefore, the IHC should set the accountability court's decision aside.
Sharif had, in his petition to the IHC, asked the court to direct the accountability court to frame joint charges and conduct a single trial against the Sharif family, instead of holding three separate trials.
