Former prime minister Nawaz has said that the accountability court should delay announcing the verdict in the Avenfield case till he returns to Pakistan.
The accountability court had said it would announce its verdict in the reference on July 6.
Addressing media in London, Nawaz said he wants to hear the verdict in the courtroom where “I presented myself with my daughter over 100 hundred times”.
Pakistan has a history of remaining verdicts “unnecessarily” reserved for months, said the former prime minister, adding he is not asking for months but “a relief for some days” considering his wife’s illness.
“I am not a military dictator who would run away from the court,” the ousted prime minister said.
“The people will give a bigger verdict on July 25,” he added with reference to the general elections scheduled to be held on the said date.
The court had already declared Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz ‘absconders’ in the case.
Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz are currently in London to attend ailing Begum Kulsoom Nawaz.
The Sharif family is facing three corruption cases in the accountability court after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed references against them in light of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case last year.