Sharif’s lawyer resumes cross-examination of JIT head in Avenfield case

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar appeared before an accountability court in Islamabad on Wednesday as it resumed hearing of the Avenfield properties case.

Judge Muhammad Bashir is hearing the case in the federal capital.

Advocate Khawaja Haris, lead counsel of the Sharif family, resumed cross-examination of Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT) head Wajid Zia, a star witness in the case.

A day earlier, Sharif and his daughter couldn’t appear before the court as their flight from Lahore was cancelled due to bad weather conditions.

During Tuesday’s hearing, the judge directed Zia to approach the Supreme Court registrar’s office for provision of Volume X of the Panama JIT report.

The Volume X pertains to the JIT’s correspondence with foreign countries for mutual legal assistance (MLA) for a probe into the Sharif family’s wealth.

During his cross-examination, Zia told the court that Volume X was sealed by the apex court on a request of JIT and could be de-sealed when an application is filed with the apex court.

To a query, he said JIT wrote seven letters under the MLA to the UAE authorities for cooperation and information regarding the establishment and disposal of the Sharif family’s mills there.

When the counsel contradicted his claim, saying it had written a few more letters, the JIT head said he had to check the record to ascertain this.

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