ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday constituted a three-judge bench to take up a plea of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) seeking reopening of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case against the Sharif family.
A new bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel, will hear the case on November 28.
On November 13, the bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and comprising Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan was dissolved after Justice Khosa recused himself from the bench and referred the matter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan for constituting another bench.
Justice Khosa had observed that the appeal has been wrongly fixed before him. Since he had suggested in the April 20 judgment in the Panama Papers that the Hudaibya Paper Mills case required to be re-investigated, thus he cannot hear the appeal to this effect, he remarked.
The NAB has challenged the Lahore High Court’s verdict, quashing the Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya corruption reference against the ruling family.
The Sharif family seemed to be unhappy with the NAB move seeking the reopening of the case which was put to rest on the orders of the Lahore High Court.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) had reacted to the NAB appeal, with Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique terming it unjustified.
A new bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel, will hear the case on November 28.
On November 13, the bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and comprising Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan was dissolved after Justice Khosa recused himself from the bench and referred the matter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan for constituting another bench.
Justice Khosa had observed that the appeal has been wrongly fixed before him. Since he had suggested in the April 20 judgment in the Panama Papers that the Hudaibya Paper Mills case required to be re-investigated, thus he cannot hear the appeal to this effect, he remarked.
The NAB has challenged the Lahore High Court’s verdict, quashing the Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya corruption reference against the ruling family.
The Sharif family seemed to be unhappy with the NAB move seeking the reopening of the case which was put to rest on the orders of the Lahore High Court.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) had reacted to the NAB appeal, with Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique terming it unjustified.
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