ISLAMABAD – Maryam Nawaz, the former first daughter, has defended her moveto read the testimony before the accountability court with completepunctuation marks, a move which had surprised the judge Muhammad Bashir aswell.
Maryam took to Twitter on Thursday, hours after she recorded her statementin the Avenfiled reference, and stated that misplacing punctuations canchange meanings.
“As a practice, commas, full stops, inverted commas, new paragraphs, allhave to be read with emphasis&recorded,” stated Maryam Nawaz.
Earlier, Maryam Nawaz testified before the accountability court JudgeMuhammad Bashir in the reference pertaining to the upscale London flats,filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
When Maryam started reading her statement in toto with punctuation marks,the judge interrupted her and advised that commas should not be read.
However, Maryam replied that her counsel had instructed to read thestatement without ignoring the punctuation marks.
Maryam Nawaz answered as many as 46 questions out of 128 on her first dayof testimony, asked in the questionnaire handed over to the embattledSharif family by the accountability court.
In his testimony, Maryam backed his father’s reservations on the members ofthe joint investigation team. She said that appointment of Irfan Mangi asdirector general of NAB was still pending with the court and he was engagedfor the probe, ignoring the matter.
She went on to say that Amir Aziz from State Bank of Pakistan was a closeaide of the former military dictator Pervez Musharraf.
Maryam also said officials of Inter-Services Intelligence and MilitaryIntelligence should not have been made part of the investigation team. Azizwas sent on deputation in NAB during Musharraf’s era.
She said that Nauman Saeed was not part of the ISI when he was included inthe JIT, adding that he was outsourced.
The former first daughter added that 70-year-long civil-military tusslealso influenced the JIT, investigation into the business dealings of theSharif family.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif had completed his testimony on Wednesday inwhich he had held the treason case against Musharraf as a core cause ofreferences filed against him.