KARACHI – Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has expressed that Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N ) would take political advantage and sympathies of people from the verdict of National Accountability Court about Avenfield case against Nawaz Sharif and his children.
Talking to a private news channel hours after the decision by Judge Muhammad Bashir on Friday, the former president said that they (Sharifs) still had options of appeal to get relief from High and Supreme courts.
He reiterated that Muhammad Nawaz Sharif would not return to the country because he had taken political asylum in England.
Asif Ali Zardari claimed that PPP was the major political party of the country having deep roots across the country, adding that it would get more seats in Punjab as compared to 2013 elections.
Replying to a question, he said no political party was ready to sit with PTI and it could not take two third majority in upcoming general election adding that he was seeing a coalition government after July 25 general election.
The former president said all the policies of the PML-N’s last government failed miserably and Ishaq Dar always damaged the national economy.
To a question, Zardari said PPP had supported PML-N’s government during sit-in of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in 2014 for the sake of democracy but the government had not given respect to the Parliament during its last tenure.
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Earlier on Friday, judge Muhammad Bashir handed a 10-year sentence and £8 million (Rs1.29 billion) to Pakistan’s former prime minister in a corruption reference pertaining to Sharif family’s Avenfield apartment in London, UK.
In the detailed decision, Accountability Judge Mohammad Bashir also sentenced Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, to seven years in jail for forgery and making assets through illegal sources in the landmark decision. She has been ordered to pay a fine of £2 million (Rs320 million).
Moreover, the judge ordered to seal the property in question, suggesting the government to do legislation to bring plundered money back to the country.
Capt (r) Safdar Awan, who is the son-in-law of Nawaz Sharif, was jailed for one year for cheating.
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The Friday’s verdict is in line with Section 9 of the NAB Ordinance, 1999, which pertains to corruption and corrupt practices.
Nawaz Sharif, along with his children, heard the verdict in the British capital where he is tending to his ailing wife, Kulsoom Nawaz.
