ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif is set to become the prime minister of Pakistan, the prosecution in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is ready to take him to an accountability court in Rawalpindi in connection with three corruption references.
The Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on December 3, 2012, reserved judgment on petitions of the Sharif family seeking quashing of the corruption references Ittefaq foundries, the Raiwind assets and Hudaibia paper mills — which have been pending in the accountability court since 2000.
Sharif and his family sought quashing of the references when NAB initiated a process to resume their trial in the accountability court.
But the LHC on October 18, 2011, restrained the accountability court from proceeding against the family till final adjudication of the matter.
The restraining order is still effective even after a lapse of 20 months and the accountability court on a number of occasions since October 2011 has adjourned the hearing of the NAB application for the revival of the references.
After the Supreme Court judgement of December 16, 2009, in which it declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) void ab initio and ordered NAB to revive corruption references, the NAB prosecution in 2010 filed an application with the accountability court for reopening of the references against the Sharifs.
But it was deferred because the application was not signed by the NAB chairman due to his unavailability.
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