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Summary Accountability Court will hear reopening of the corruption references against Sharif family today.
The court had summoned PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and other members of Sharif family to appear today in Ittefaq Foundries case and corruption reference.The Accountability Court IV headed by Chaudhry Abdul Haq will hear the case. The hearing of Hudaibia Paper Mills case against Sharif family will start on September 15.The counsel for Sharif brothers, Akram Sheikh, said that these cases were filed against his clients when they were in Attock Jail. He further argued that the reopening of cases after a hiatus of 12 years is based on dishonesty.Meanwhile, NAB Additional Prosecutor General Chaudhry Riaz said the bureau did not make the delay in reopening of the three corruption references against the Sharif brothers rather it had earlier filed an application for revival of the cases first in 2007 and then in 2010, but an objection was raised that the application was not duly signed by NAB chairman, a slot that remained vacant for quite some time.
