ISLAMABAD   -   The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday granted PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz exemption from personal appearance for one day in hearing of appeals in the Avenfield Apartment reference.

A two-member bench of IHC comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani conducted hearing of an application filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter through her lawyer Amjad Pervez.

During the hearing, the counsel submitted an application seeking exemption from personal appearance of Maryam Nawaz for day. He stated in the application that his client was busy in running her party’s campaign for the upcoming election in AJK and due to this she could not turn up before the court. Accepting her application, the court granted exemption to Maryam for one day and deferred the hearing till July 29 for further proceedings.

Maryam Nawaz and her husband Captain (retd) Mohammad Safdar Awan had filed appeals against their conviction in the Avenfield Apartment reference. The IHC had previously separated the appeals of Nawaz Sharif from the appeals of Maryam and Safdar and declared the former premier a proclaimed offender over his perpetual absence from the hearing.