PTI terms Sharif's suspension of sentence in Al-Azizia case unlawful.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday said that the decision of the caretaker Punjab government, which suspended the sentence of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Al-Azizia corruption reference, was unAlawful as the provincial government has no powers to give relief to a perAson convicted under the federal law.

Strongly rejecting the decision of the caretaker provincial government, PTI Spokesperson for Legal Affairs Barrister Gohar Khan said that it was 'another shameful addition to the political engineering under which convicted Nawaz Sharif was brought back to the country under the state asylum.' The PTI spokesperson for leAgal affairs in a strongly-worded reacAtion to the development said that the Punjab's 'unlawful' caretaker governAment directly attacked the law by deAciding to suspend the sentence of the convicted Nawaz illegally.

Barrister Gohar made it clear that the caretaker government of Punjab had no authority to suspend the senAtence of a convicted criminal under the present NAB (National AccountAability Bureau) law. He further elaboArated that under the Code of Criminal Procedure, no provincial government had any powers to reduce, suspend or terminate the...