In Short
- Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz left the country in 2018.
- The brothers, who are British nationals, were implicated in Panama case in 2018.
- Islamabad accountability court suspended their arrest warrants in the Panama scandal.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz, reappeared in the country after seven years on Tuesday, following the suspension of their arrest warrants by an accountability court.
Insiders from the Sharif family disclosed that the brothers landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore and were promptly escorted under strict security to Jati Umra, the family’s ancestral residence.
Nawaz Sharif, a leader of the PML-N, warmly received them at Jati Umra. Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, their sister, also reunited with her brothers, who paid homage at their late mother Kulsoom Begum’s grave and offered prayers.
The suspension of the warrants occurred after the Islamabad court, on March 8, lifted the requirement for Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz to appear in court, a status that had been in place for seven years.
Judge Nasir Javed Rana of the accountability court announced the decision in a verdict delivered earlier that day, extending the suspension until March 14.
Initially issued when the court labeled the brothers as absconders, the warrants have now been lifted. Last week, the accountability court suspended the arrest warrants in the Al-Azizia, Flagship, and Avenfield cases.
While Mr. Sharif was convicted in the Al-Azizia reference in December 2018 but acquitted in the Flagship Investment reference, he, along with Maryam Nawaz and her husband retired Capt Safdar, challenged their convictions in the Avenfield reference before the Islamabad High Court.
Following Mr. Sharif’s return to Pakistan in October last year, the IHC overturned his convictions, marking the latest development in the ongoing legal saga of the Sharif family.
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