KARACHI: Officers of the Pakistan High Commission in London on Wednesday have submitted their statements in Islamabad High Court (IHC) on the implementation of the arrest warrant of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif.
According to details, first secretary Dildar Ali Abro submitted a statement that Waqar Ahmed, the assistant of Nawaz Sharif’s son, had called him for receiving the arrest warrant at their Park Lane residence on 23rd September. He said he went to their residence but the assistant refused to accept them.
“It was agreed with Waqar that he would receive the warrants on September 23 at 11am,” Abro told the court. He added that Waqar was also informed that the mission’s Consular Attache Rao Abdul Hanan would hand over the warrants. At 10:20am Waqar called me to apologise and declined to receive the warrants,” Abro told the court.
Another officer Rao Abdul Hannan said that went to Nawaz Sharif’s residence at 06:35pm on 17th September along with the warrant but their domestic employee Yaqoob had refused to receive it.
The PML-N supremo was declared a proclaimed offender and has previously also refused to receive the arrest warrants issued in his name and delivered at the Park Lane address.
The Pakistan High Commission has been unable to get the non-bailable arrest warrants for Nawaz Sharif executed at the Avenfield House nearly a month after the warrants were received.
The federal government has said that it will write another letter to the British government for the deportation of the former prime minister.
During an earlier hearing of Nawaz Sharif’s appeal against his conviction in the Al-Azizia case, the Islamabad High Court had asked about the execution of the arrest warrants.
Additional Attorney General Tariq Khokhar told the court that Rao Abdul Hanan, a representative of the Pakistan High Commission, reached the Avenfield Apartments to deliver the arrest warrants but they refused to receive them.
Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani stated that Pakistani mission in London should record a statement to ensure that the accused can not claim in the future that he was not aware of the issuance of the arrest warrant.
Pakistan High Commission has made at least five attempts were made so far to get the arrest warrants signed and delivered at the Avenfield flats but have been unsuccessful as neither Nawaz Sharif nor any member of the Sharif family has signed the official papers.
