Sharif family never denied affidavit prepared on Nawaz's instructions: Fawad
Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry addressing a press conference in Islamabad on November 9, 2021. PHOTO: APP
Federal Minister for Broadcasting and Information Chaudhry Fawad said on Saturday that the Sharif family never denied that former Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Justice Rana Shamim's affidavit was prepared in the office of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif, on the latter's instructions.
The minister said the all incidents appeared to be an attempt at influencing the court.
On December 26, 2021, it was revealed, in an exclusive news published in The Express Tribune, that Shamim took the oath and signed an affidavit in the office of none other than Mian Nawaz Sharif, trying to incriminate former Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar and honourable sitting judges of Islamabad High Court.
The affidavit, whose contents mention a three-year-old alleged incident, accused the former top judge of trying to coerce a judgment from a sitting IHC judge against the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
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In the evidence available, Charles Guthrie - a UK Solicitor - confirmed that ‘Judge Guy’ was at ‘Marble Arch’.
Two days ago, the IHC indicted Shamim in a contempt of court case.
The high court had initiated proceedings against Shamim and the media personnel after the affidavit was published in a newspaper that accused former chief justice Saqib Nisar of influencing the case against former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz.
The former G-B judge pleaded not guilty and said he would defend himself.