ISLAMABAD – The Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa on Tuesday rulesout relief to Nawaz Sharif unless IHC approached for relief.
He remarked that the Supreme Court can provide no relief to former primeminister Nawaz Sharif unless the Islamabad High Court rules in his favour.
The court further observed as to “why no one from the Sharif family hadapproached the high court to seek relief for the deposed premier from hisconviction”.
The three-judge bench headed by the CJP and comprising Sheikh Azmat andJustice Umar was hearing the petitions seeking probe in the leaked videocase involving accountability court judge Arshad Malik.
“It is strange that those [PML-N] interested in the release of Nawaz havenot yet approached the IHC because that is the only real forum to getrelief,” the chief justice remarked.
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He further said that the leaked-video scandal along with the allegedmisconduct of the accountability court judge will not go unattended.“However we are not in a hurry, we don’t want a prejudiced trial,” he added.
“The high court, too, has the authority to probe the matter,” CJP Khosasaid, adding that the IHC can launch an investigation through an appellantforum or through its constitutional authority under Article 203 wherein itsupervises affairs of the accountability court.
