PM's disqualification: PML-N legal team prepares review petition

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) will file a review petition on the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif next week, sources informed Geo News. PML-N’s legal team is preparing the review petition.

Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday had an extensive meeting with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the latter’s Shangla Gali house in which they discussed the upcoming political situation in the  strategised the line of action for contesting the verdict in the apex court and filing of the review petition with the court.

The two leaders also discussed the possible litigation in the wake of the institutions of the references by NAB. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court under Article 62 (1)(f) of the Constitution in the Panama Papers case verdict.

Announcing its verdict, the five-member bench unanimously disqualified Nawaz Sharif for failing to disclose his un-withdrawn receivables constituting assets from UAE-based Capital FZE in his nominations papers for the 2013 General Election, stating that this meant he was not ‘honest’ and ‘truthful’, as per the Constitution.

In the verdict, all five judges ruled to send references against Nawaz Sharif, his children Maryam, Hussain and Hassan, son-in-law Captain (R) Safdar and Ishaq Dar to an accountability court.

The court also ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file a reference against the accused in an accountability court in six weeks and directed for the trial to be wrapped up within six months.