ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday fixed October 29 as the date for hearing of National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) review petition regarding Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, a private TV channel reported.
A three-judge special bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel will hear the review petition. Justice Asif Saeed Khosa had directed that the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case be reopened during the hearing of the Panama Papers case.
On December 15, 2017, a three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam had dismissed NAB’s appeal to reopen the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case. NAB had then filed an appeal against the decision.
The Rs 1.2 billion Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, involving money laundering charges against the Sharif family, was initiated by NAB in 2000 but quashed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) in 2014. The NAB had appealed the LHC decision in the Supreme Court.
Published in Daily Times, October 27th 2018.
