Nawaz and his daughter Maryam were not present in the court as the two had left for London on Dec 5 after they were exempted from appearing before the court. The lawyer requested that a copy of prosecution witness Afaq Ahmad’s testimony recorded before the Supreme Court-mandated Panama Papers joint investigation team be provided to him. The statement of NAB’s Assistant Director Adeel Akhtar, another prosecution witness, was also recorded during the hearing. The court has summoned prosecution witnesses Yasir Shabbir and Shakeel Anjum in the Al Azizia reference at the next hearing scheduled on Dec 19. The anti-graft body was given six weeks, from the date of the apex court’s order, to file the reference in an accountability court while the accountability court was granted six months to wrap up the proceedings.

Source: Pakistan Today December 11, 2017 14:48 UTC