ISLAMABAD – Nawaz Sharif gets yet another blow from the Islamabad HighCourt.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday returned for a second time formerprime minister Nawaz Sharif’s plea for the suspension of his sentence inthe Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference.
On December 24, 2018, Accountability Court II Judge Arshad Malik hadsentenced Nawaz to seven years in prison in the Al-Azizia corruptionreference and acquitted him in the Flagship reference.
Nawaz had filed a plea in the IHC on January 1 against the sentence handedto him in the Al-Azizia corruption reference. The Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz leader had requested the court to suspend the sentence and torelease him on bail.
However, the IHC registrar had stated that the petition was incomplete andhad returned it.
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On Thursday, Nawaz filed the plea again after addressing the reservations.
The IHC registrar, however, again raised reservations and returned theplea. The IHC registrar’s office raised reservations as the documentssubmitted along with the plea were unreadable.
