ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday ordered the Sharif family’s lawyer to deposit Rs 1 million in the dam fund after the counsel asked for more time to confer with his clients on the case. A bench of the apex court headed by the chief justice of Pakistan heard the case pertaining to relocation of sugar mills owned by the Sharif family to southern Punjab. The Lahore High Court last year had nullified the relocation of the sugar mills to southern Punjab, ordering them to be shifted out of the region. The Sharif family had then approached the Supreme Court, which had accepted their plea for hearing earlier this year. In his remarks during Thursday’s hearing, the chief justice observed that all the directors belonged to Nawaz Sharif’s family. There was deception that a power plant was being constructed instead of sugar mills, he remarked, adding that there were bad intentions behind the mills’ relocation.
Published in Daily Times, August 3rd 2018.
