(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) In the third week of September the accountability court (AC) had rejected for lack of evidence a petition requesting that corruption references against the Sharif family be revived.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) can no longer challenge the accountability court’s decision to bury the corruption references against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other family members because of statute of limitation.
In the third week of September the accountability court (AC) had rejected for lack of evidence a petition requesting that corruption references against the Sharif family be revived. This ruling could have been challenged within 10 days but the deadline passed on September 29.
This is the second time during the current year that NAB did not challenge a accountability court’s orders rejecting further proceedings in high profile corruption references a move that is tantamount to burying these corruption cases.
Former deputy prosecutor general NAB Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri said that the order of the accountability court had attained finality after the prosecution did not file an appeal against it in the high court within the specified time.
According to him these references are not alive anymore and have become a past and closed chapter.
On September 19 the Accountability Court of Rawalpindi dismissed an application filed by NAB in August 2011 which sought revival of corruption references against the Sharifs.
Earlier in the year in May the Accountability Court of Islamabad acquitted former president Asif Ali Zardari in the polo ground reference — this judgment too was not challenged in the high court.
NAB had filed the polo ground corruption reference in the accountability court in 2000 implicating former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari along with two former CDA chairmen Shafi Sehwani and Saeed Mehdi.
The former chairmen were alleged to have constructed a polo ground at the Prime Minister House during Benazir’s first term in office.
This case along with others against Zardari as well as the Sharifs came to a halt with the promulgation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance in 2007.
After the Supreme Court declared the NRO invalid on December 16 2009 these cases were revived.
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