ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz said on Saturday that the Supreme Court’s verdict did not fulfill the requirements of justice.
Speaking to a private TV channel, she said the apex court’s decision had not only astonished the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, but the entire world as well.
“We were not given the opportunity of a fair trial and the verdict did not fulfill the requirements of justice. The world is astonished over that verdict. When our judges, who are experts and understand the law, gave such a verdict, which not only astonishes the PML-N but the entire world, questions will be raised,” she said.
Maryam said that keeping in view the treatment meted out by the judiciary over the last year and a half, it was not possible to hope for justice, yet “we decided to test the judicial system once again” by filing the review petitions against the Panama case verdict. “The way we were treated in the last year and a half and the way court proceedings of cases were held, the way verdicts came, after that, it was not possible to hope for justice,” she said.
Published in Daily Times, September 17th 2017.
