An accountability court on Monday adjourned hearing of two corruption references against the Sharif family until tomorrow (August 1).
Earlier, the hearing was adjourned until July 30 after defence counsel Khawaja Haris boycotted proceedings pending an Islamabad High Court (IHC) verdict on transferring both petitions to another court. The corruption references in question were premised on the Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investments.
In a separate development, the Islamabad chief commissioner declared former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s suite in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) a sub-jail. A notification was issued after the three-time prime minister was shifted to the facility from Adiala Jail after his health deteriorated.
Doctors requested prison authorities to transfer Sharif to a hospital after he developed serious cardiac complications. The caretaker government directed jail authorities to shift Nawaz to the PIMS cardiac centre. Interim Punjab chief minister Hassan Askari earlier said prison doctors had observed changes in Sharif’s electrocardiogram.
Published in Daily Times, July 31st 2018.
