ISLAMABAD, OCT 19 (DNA) – Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz and her spouse Captain (retd) Safdar on Thursday have appeared before an accountability court here for the corruption proceedings against the Sharif family.

Three references have been filed against the Sharif family members by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in compliance with the Supreme Court’s landmark July 28 verdict.

Maryam Nawaz arrived at the court amid tight security and extensive protocol for the hearing of a corruption reference. She was accompanied by ministers and senior PML-N leaders.

Subsequently, Maryam’s spouse and Sharif’s son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar reached the court premises separately.

The NAB court is expected to indict Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar in three graft references.

Former PM Sharif is currently in London and would be skipping the graft proceedings today, besides Sharif family’s lead counsel Khawaja Harris is also out of the country.

At the outset, one of the Sharif family’s counsels Advocate Amjad Pervaiz pleaded that his clients could not indicted in the references until they were not furnished with complete documents of the case, specifically the ‘Volume X’ of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report.