Summary A new three-member SC bench will start hearing of NAB's appeal for reopening Hudaibiyah case today.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - A new three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will start hearing the appeal for reopening Hudaibiyah Paper Mills case against Sharif family today (Tuesday). National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed this appeal upon the observation of SC’s five-member bench in Panama case, reported Dunya News.
The three-member SC bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam, and comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Aalm Miankhel will hear the case.
Earlier, a three-member bench, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa was constituted to hear the NAB appeal; however, the case could not be taken up on November 13, as Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa had excused himself from hearing the case.
The bench was disbanded after Justice Asif Saeed Khosa excused himself from hearing the matter, saying that he was given the case due to office’s mistake. He continued, “It seems that the office has not read my verdict on Panama Leaks case. I wrote 14 paragraphs over Hudaibiya Papers Mills in the April 20 decision.”
The Hudaibiya Paper Mills case is basically about money laundering of Sharif family during 1990s.
The case was lodged against Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Shahbaz’s son and Member of National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz and other members over Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar’s confessional statement on April 25, 2000 before magistrate in Lahore.
The reference was afterwards dismissed by LHC on March 11, 2014 in response to a writ petition filed in 2011, stating that Dar was pressurized to record the statement.
