Nawaz Sharif challenges Avenfield verdict in IHC

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam Nawaz, whom the accountability court had awarded eleven and eight year imprisonment respectively, have challenged accountability court's verdict in Avenfield case  in the Islamabad High Court on Monday.The accountability court indicted the father-daughter duo with £8-million and £2-million fines, whilst Nawaz’s son-in-law, Capt (retd) Safdar, received a one-year prison sentence.All three of them hired Khwaja Haris as their legal counsel for the case who filed the appeals today.Nawaz and Maryam's appeals seek declaration of the verdict as null and void and that the three convicts should be released on bail. After their conviction by the accountability court on July 6, Nawaz and Maryam arrived in Pakistan on Friday evening. They were arrested upon their arrival in Lahore and shifted to Adiala Jail in separate convoys. Safdar was arrested earlier on July 9.

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