ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed an appeal on Wednesday in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to nullify the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case registered against the Sharif family.
The petitioner has named former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Member National Assembly Hamza Shehbaz as the respondents.
NAB has pleaded before the SC to dismiss LHC’s decision to put the case aside and to order a new inquiry into the case following the discovery of new evidence from the Panama Joint Investigation Team’s report.
The Hudaibiya Paper Mills case is a case based on the alleged money laundering done by the Sharif family in the 1990’s and Ishaq Dar the families trusted aide recorded a confessional statement back in April 25,2000 in front of a magistrate based in Lahore.
A reference was filed against Nawaz, his brothers, Dar and several others before an accountability court by NAB based on Dar’s confession.
On March 11, 2014, LHC was asked to take its decision back in response to a writ petition filed in 2011 stating that Dar’s confession was coerced.
Dar claimed that he had made the ‘confession’ in under pressure and disowned it.
