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New Delhi: Islamabad High Court on Wednesday acquitted Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in two corruption cases in which he was convicted in 2018.
Sharif returned home from self-imposed exile in October after being granted permission to travel to London in 2019 to receive medical treatment while serving a 14-year prison sentence for corruption.
In July 2018, an accountability court sentenced the PML-N leader to 10 years in jail in the Avenfield properties corruption reference. The case pertains to owning of assets beyond known income and one year sentence for not cooperating with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The sentences were to be served concurrently, as reported by Pakistan-based Dawn.
The verdict was announced by a two-member bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb on Nawaz’s appeal against his conviction in the case.
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