Islamabad, Jan 16: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Tuesday criticised three
successive governments for "colluding to adjourn reference in mega
Hudabiya Paper mills case".
The PTI chairman took to the Twitter and lamented the
collusion between the Sharifs and the governments submerged the nation in a
financial crisis today, according to The Express Tribune report.
“What hope can a nation have where state institutions, meant
to investigate and punish the plunderers of billions that could have been
invested in peoples’ welfare, are destroyed to protect the Sharifs,” The
cricketer-turned-politician said.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a
review petition in the Supreme Court against the dismissal of its plea for
reopening the 18-year-old Hudabiya Paper Mills case against the Sharif family,
arguing that the PPP, the PML-N, and the Pervez Musharraf regime had colluded
to indefinitely adjourn the reference.
It was also learnt that the NAB would also move another
application soon to request that Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar
constitute a larger bench to hear the case.
Some 18 years ago, NAB claimed that Nawaz Sharif, the then
Prime Minister, and his family received more than Rs1-billion “through illegal
and fraudulent means” and that they were liable to be tried under
anti-corruption laws in relation to the Hudabiya Papers Mills.
In 2014, LHC quashed the reference concerning the Hudabiya
Papers Mills against the Sharif family. However, the anti-graft watchdog did
not challenge the LHC’s order at that time.
According to NAB documents, Sharif, his daughter Maryam
Nawaz, his father Mian Muhammad Sharif, brothers Shehbaz and Abbas Sharif,
Abbas’s wife Sabiha, Sharif’s son Hussain and Shahbaz’s son Hamza had been
accused of receiving the alleged ‘ill-gotten money’ in the case. UNI
