Islamabad (August 2, 2017): Justice Ejazul Ahsan will be monitoring judge of the NAB references to be filed against Sharif family as per Supreme Court’s decision in Panamagate case.
According to the details, the Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan to oversee proceedings of NAB references against the Sharif family as asked by the five-member bench in Panama verdict on 28th July.
The apex court in its Panama case judgement had disqualified Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister and directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file references against Nawaz Sharif, his children, son-in-law, Ishaq Dar and others in the accountability courts and asked the chief justice to nominate a judge to supervise the matter.
The Supreme Court while disqualifying Nawaz Sharif had directed National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file references in accountability court against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his children Maryam Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz, his son-in-law Capt (retd) Muhammad Safder and Senator Ishaq Dar on the basis of the materials of JIT report.
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The court had also directed the accountability court Rawalpindi to decide the references within six months. The court had also decided to appoint a judge to monitor the references against Sharif family.
Justice Ejazul Ahsan, who was part of the five members larger bench of Panamagate and the three member implementation bench was appointed as monitoring judge.
Registrar Supreme Court issued notification regarding Justice Ahsan appointment as monitoring judge.
Justice Ahsan will monitor progress on the references which will be heard by accountability court Rawalpindi.
“The Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan is requested to nominate an Hon’ble Judge of this Court to supervise and monitor implementation of this judgment in letter and spirit and oversee the proceedings conducted by the NAB and the Accountability Court in the above matters,” read the final order.
Justice Ijaz was also the member of the SC bench which heard the identical petitions filed by PTI Chief Imran Khan, Jamat-e-Islami Ameer Siraj-ul-Haq and AML chief Sheikh Rashid against offshore assets of Sharif family.
The SC directed the NAB to file references within six weeks from the date of this judgment, adding that the ‘Accountability Court shall proceed with and decide the aforesaid References within a period of six months from the date of filing such References’.
Following the court order, the NAB has decided to file four references.
The decision to file the references was taken in the meeting of the NAB Executive Board, which was held on Monday under its Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry. It was decided to file four references in the accountability courts of Islamabad/ Rawalpndi in the stipulated time period of six weeks from the date of judgement.
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