LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has fixed the petition for passport return filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz VicePresident Maryam Nawaz for hearing on October 3.
The LHC registrar had also issued the cause list which also includes hearing of Maryam’s miscellaneous petition for passport return.
A three-judge LHC bench headed by Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhutti and comprising Justice Ali Baqir Najfi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh would hear the case on Sept 27.
During its last hearing, the three-judge bench had sought reply from the respondents. While The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided not to oppose Maryam’s plea for return of her passport.
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On Thursday, the IHC overturned the Avenfield verdict and cleared Maryam Nawaz and her husband Mohammad Safdar of all charges.
The National Accountability Bureau sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison for having assets over his known income and one year for refusing to cooperate (NAB). Maryam, meanwhile, received a 7-year sentence for aiding and abetting and a 1-year sentence for refusing to cooperate with the bureau after being deemed “helpful in concealing the properties of her father.”
Safdar received a one-year sentence in prison for his refusal to cooperate with the NAB and for helping Nawaz and Maryam.
The Sharif family had filed appeals against its conviction before the IHC in the second week of August 2018. The court had on Sep 18 the same year suspended their sentences and released them on bail.
