ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Bar Council Vice Chairman Kamran Murtaza has respondedover the IHC verdict in Sharif family case.
He said that it was expected for past many days despite the many delays byNAB [National Accountability Bureau].
“When we talk about the legal side of things, we don’t seek solace inmorality. The fact of the matter is that the whole case couldn’t beestablished on paper as NAB has failed and there are many lacunas in theearlier judgement,” he said, calling the anti-graft body’s investigation“defective and self-contradictory”.
Pakistan Bar Council member Azam Nazeer Tarar maintained that the judgementof the accountability court was full of contradictions andself-contradictory stances.
He argued, “For example, if you take Maryam’s case, the prosecution issaying that she was minor at the time when the transaction took place, soshe did not have the means to know the nature of the transaction.
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Declaring her as minor and then later on saying that she was aiding andabetting Nawaz Sharif to acquire these assets can’t be termed as a validargument.”
Tarar said that the NAB failed to prove the case against the ex-PM beyondthe iota of doubt.
“They convicted Nawaz Sharif for having assets beyond known sources ofincome, however, they failed to determine the means of those assets. Thatpart ultimately will prove to be the base of suspension of sentence,” Tararsaid.
