News @ 3 - 27th March 2018

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday recorded statement of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) head Wajid Zia in the Avenfield reference.

Former premier Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar turned up before the court as Judge Muhammad Bashir resumed hearing the case.

The JIT head continued recording his testimony and was cross-examined by the Sharif family’s lawyers in the case.

He placed on the record three letters in connection with Mutual Legal Assistance for a probe into the offences allegedly committed by the Sharif family’s offshore companies and Qatari Prince Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al Thani’s letter to the Supreme Court

Amjad Pervaiz, representing Maryam and Safdar, objected to submission of the letters, asking why were they not submitted to the court before.

The court, however, allowed the star witness to furnish these letters and made them part of the proceedings.