Al-Azizia reference: Court grants Nawaz one-day deadline to answer last 4 questions

Dunya News

The amount transferred to the bank account from abroad was not concealed, he went on to say.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif on Monday sought more time from accountability court to answer last four questions.

As the hearing went underway, the former premier stated that he wanted to hold consultation with his legal counsel Khawaja Haris over last four questions. To this, the court gave Sharif deadline till November-20.

In the upcoming proceedings, Sharif would answer ‘why case has been made against him.’ Thus far, the supremo had answered 148 questions.  

Earlier, Nawaz Sharif on Monday has requested the court to dismiss the statements recorded by Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT).

During the hearing headed by accountability court judge Justice Mohammad Arshad, the former PM continued to record his statement in Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference.

He said that a joint plea has already been submitted in the Supreme Court (SC), adding that JIT is not more than an investigation agency and that its probe was biased and without proof.

The amount transferred to the bank account from abroad was not concealed, he went on to say.

Nawaz Sharif told that no evidence of corruption in national exchequer was found against him, adding that his children started their business abroad.