Sharif pleads not guilty in Flagship Investments court indictment

Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif was indicted by an accountability court on Friday in a reference related to Flagship Investments and other offshore companies.

According to the Dawn, the accountability court charged Sharif in absentia for holding assets beyond his known sources of income, and read out a charge-sheet to his pleader, Zafir Khan. Khan pleaded not guilty on behalf of Sharif, who is currently in London tending to his ailing wife, Kulsoom Nawaz.