Hilarious reactions to the #AvenfieldReference verdict

Twitter is having a field day today

The accountability court, in a momentous decision on Friday, sentenced deposed prime mininster Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison. His daughter Maryam has also been sentenced to seven years in the Avenfield corruption case. Sharif's son in law, Capt (R) Safdar has also been sentenced to one year in jail.

All eyes across Pakistan were glued to TV screens as Judge Muhammad Bashir of the accountability court read out the 100-page verdict. The historic decision was to be announced earlier, but after multiple delays, the court announced the verdict in the presence of media personnel at 4:20 pm.

Of course, Twitterati was busy with their own coverage of the incident. Here, we have compiled some of the most hilarious tweets regarding the #AvenfieldReference case. Once the sentences were announced, we hit gold.

https://twitter.com/faizi_pakistani/status/1015201147978702848

https://twitter.com/DaPakistaniGuy/status/1015200741256978433

https://twitter.com/kash_zee/status/1015199422463053824

https://twitter.com/zaibasi/status/1015194655133261824

https://twitter.com/hksina/status/1015194478116683777

https://twitter.com/salsabeelbutt01/status/1015194189301211136

https://twitter.com/mfaizanahmad/status/1015194365491335170

While the nation waited for the verdict to be announced, this is what some witty Pakistanis were up to:

https://twitter.com/Aounmehdi24/status/1015186275744276481

https://twitter.com/8fc1bebec6db405/status/1015187937632440321

https://twitter.com/MASROORRAJPAR1/status/1015192277520658437

https://twitter.com/zakria_khalid/status/1015138633874132992

https://twitter.com/gullmuhammad354/status/1015187986756063233

https://twitter.com/RabiaAnumm/status/1015176203609702400

https://twitter.com/Iam_Mian/status/1015181063516286976

https://twitter.com/MeriSunlo/status/1015181640665124864

https://twitter.com/pahareya/status/1015126384694431745

Situation of Judge Bashir saab in Court 😂#AvenfieldReference
pic.twitter.com/nAW6qcS7SN

— Farooq Afridi (@FaryAfridi1) July 6, 2018

https://twitter.com/iamAhmadokz/status/1015180747790012416

https://twitter.com/SirJohnRoe/status/1015117624487931904

https://twitter.com/MehwishIjazi/status/1015184015765196800

While the verdict is being announced:

https://twitter.com/ecstasy_404/status/1015178390918361092

https://twitter.com/sadamengr_/status/1015184338110111744

https://twitter.com/SidraBatool112/status/1015186633258360835

https://twitter.com/ShahmeerAliPTI/status/1015187839296958464

 

Earlier, the court had reserved its judgment in the case after almost 10 months of proceedings and roughly 80 plus appearances of the former prime minister, his daughter Maryam and Capt (retd) Safdar.

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