Nawaz Sharif's plea to club three corruption references into one dismissed

Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar on Thursday rejected ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s appeal seeking to merge three references filed by the National Accountability Bureau against him, it was  reported.

On October 13, Sharif had approached the Supreme Court to club the three cases into a single allegation, claiming that holding various trials on a single allegation violates



the defendant’s fundamental rights, ARY News reported. However, the apex court’s registrar had rejected this plea.

Sharif then challenged the registrar’s decision, which was heard on Thursday by Nisar. The chief justice upheld the order passed by the registrar office, adding that the option to review verdict in the Panama Papers case was already provided to Sharif’s family.