PTI, PPP agree to file review petition for re-opening Hudaibiya Mills case

PPP will also hold talks with PAT's chief Tahirul Qadri on the review petition in Supreme Court against Sharif family


News Desk December 29, 2017
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have agreed to file a review petition in the top court for reopening the Hudaibiya Papers Mill case, Express News reported on Friday.

Senior leadership of both the parties have recently met and discussed the matter. They agreed to either file separate petitions or a joint one to reopen the case. Sources revealed that it will be decided soon when and how the petition will be filed.

In his recent speech, PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan also raised the issue and hinted at the review petition. He said that according to the law, the case can be reopened at any given time. Sources said that Ahsan was specifically directed by PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari to address this issue.

SC dismisses NAB's appeal to reopen Hudaibiya Mills case against Sharifs

A meeting between Zardari and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri is also expected to take place on Friday (today) during which the top leadership will also discuss the Hudaibiya Mills case.

The Sharif family breathed a sigh of relief on December 15 after the Supreme Court dismissed the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) appeal to reopen Hudaibiya Paper Mills case – known as the mother of all corruption cases against Sharifs – by declaring it not maintainable.

The top court’s three-member bench – comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel – rejected NAB’s appeal against the order of a divisional bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC),  which in 2014 had quashed the graft reference.

Alhough the 17-year-old Hudaibiya Paper Mills case has been in the headlines for the last one year, the three-member bench took only four hearings to conclude that the case could not be reopened and that it was an ‘income tax’ case rather than that of ‘money laundering’.

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