Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said he would
not stand for the "double standards and the blatant murder of justice",
while discussing the Supreme Court's (SC) recent verdict in the disqualification case against Imran Khan and Jahangir Tareen.
Speaking
to media representatives at the premises of the accountability court,
Sharif said: "The court's double standards and this blatant murder of
justice will not be tolerated, not by the PML-N and neither by this
nation."
The former premier was speaking to reporters
during a break in hearing of the National Accountability Bureau's
corruption referemce filed against him.
Discussing the
apex court's decision to send the petition against PTI's alleged foreign
funding to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Sharif said:
"They have given the ECP the past five years (for checking PTI's
financial records) because the calculation has already been done; they
know that whatever happened did not happen in those five years."
"We will remain steadfast in the face of this verdict and take the matter to the people," Sharif said, once again threatening to start a movement against the SC's verdict.
"This scale of justice outside the court should stand for insaf, not for Tehreek-i-Insaf," Sharif remarked sarcastically as he concluded his tirade.
In
today's hearing at the accountability court, the prosecution presented a
witness, Yasir Bashir, who is a branch manager for a private bank.
Bashir testified to providing NAB with details about the bank accounts
of Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz.
Bashir also provided
the court details about various transactions that took place from the
accounts of Maryam and the former prime minister.
He told
the court that there were no discrepancies found in Maryam's bank
details and that the bank never received any complaints about her
account.
While cross questioning the witness, Khawaja
Haris, the lawyer representing Nawaz and Maryam, pointed out that Bashir
had not compiled the documents presented to NAB himself. Haris added
that had Bashir done so, he would have remembered the transaction
amounts for both accounts by heart.
The next witness,
NAB's Shakeel Anjum Nagra recorded his statement regarding receiving
certified copies of the joint investigation team's (JIT) report and
forwarding it to the relevant departments.
Afaq Ahmed, a
director of the Foreign Ministry, gave the court details about the
letter written by former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim to the
JIT chief Wajid Zia.
Ahmad told the court that the Pakistan embassy received the letter on May 28; it was passed on to the JIT chief on May 30.
"The JIT summoned me through a letter written to the secretary of foreign affairs on May 31," Ahmad told the court.
Ahmad told the court that he answered the summons and presented himself before the JIT on June 1 to record his statement.
The court has summoned the next two witnesses in the case to present themselves in court on Wednesday, January 3.
