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Top Story April 2, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Broadsheet Commission, led by Justice (R) Azmat Saeed, has simply ignored the judiciary’s own scandal in which judgments in the SGS and Cotecna cases were copied by different accountability courts leading to the acquittal in 2011 of all those co-accused with Asif Ali Zardari. This issue not only relates to the allegedly serious misconduct of the judges involved but also pertains to the culmination of the cases, decided in favour of the co-accused of Zardari in a dubious manner when the PPP co-chairperson was the President of Pakistan. While the Azmat Commission did raise the issue of Zardari’s acquittal by the accountability courts during the last PML-N government owing to the missing original record in these cases, there is no mention of how in 2011 the accountability court judges favoured Zardari’s co-accused. ....
Top Story April 1, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Justice (R) Azmat Shaikh Commission report on the Broadsheet affair has spared the generals who headed the NAB at the time but holds a former prosecutor general and a lawyer responsible for the scam. The commission also seeks a ‘fact-based’ prosecution of Asif Ali Zardari in the SGS-Cotecna and ARY cases at the appeal stage. Informed sources say that the commission was dismayed over how these cases were decided by the Accountability Court in favour of Zardari. It was because of the ‘missing’ record, which the commission insists is not missing. Therefore, this point must be pressed in the appeal stage of the case by NAB to get the trial court verdict reversed. ....
Top Story April 1, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Justice (R) Azmat Shaikh Commission report on the Broadsheet affair has spared the generals who headed NAB at the time but holds a former prosecutor general and a lawyer responsible for the scam. The Commission also seeks a ‘fact-based’ prosecution of Asif Ali Zardari in the SGS-Cotecna and ARY cases at the appeal stage. Informed sources say that the Commission was dismayed over how these cases were decided by the Accountability Court in favour of Zardari. It was because of the ‘missing’ record, which the Commission insists is not missing. Therefore, this point must be pressed in the appeal stage of the case by NAB to get the trial court verdict reversed. ....