INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Accountability Court Judge Arshad Malik Sunday issued a statement calling the video tape released by Maryam Nawaz fake and
fictitious.AC judge alleged video opens new Pandora boxThe statement comes a day after the PMLN leader released the video purportedly
showing Arshad Malik telling a man that he was blackmailed and coerced into convicting Nawaz Sharif despite no evidence against him.Who is
Nasir Butt?The video is an attempt to malign me, my institution and my family, and that is why I wanted to bring forth some facts, the judge
said in the statement issued by the Accountability Court Registrar.The judge, however, admitted that he was acquainted with Nasir Butt and
his brother Abdullah Butt, both residents of Rawalpindi.The judge said that a number of times during the trial of Nawaz Sharif and other
members of Sharif family, he was offered bribe and threatened with consequences if he refused to co-operate.The judge said he wouldn't have
acquitted Nawaz Sharif in one case and convicted in another, if had decided the cases under pressure.He said he was not under any pressure
while deciding on the cases.&This press conference was an attempt to make the judgement controversial and claim political benefits.The
videos played during the presser were fake and fictitious, he said and demanded action against those involved in this matter.Maryam Nawaz
had released the footage at the press conference at the party secretariat in Model Town along with PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, former
premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Khwaja Asif and others.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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