ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday reserved its decision on deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif's plea to combine the three National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) references against him. 

The hearing by the two-member bench, headed by Justice Amir Farooq, reserved its decision after hearing the arguments presented by the defence and prosecution. 

A cause list will be issued by the court announcing the date of the judgment at a later date. 

An accountability court on November 8 had dismissed Nawaz's plea seeking the clubbing of three references into one.

The court had also formally framed charges against Nawaz in person, as previously his legal representative had appeared on his behalf for the indictment on October 19 and 20.

Rejecting the charges in the three references and pleading not guilty, as his representative had done earlier, Nawaz had said in court that he was denied the right to a fair trial and his basic rights were not protected.

On November 14, the IHC sent notices to NAB on Nawaz's petition challenging the accountability court's decision to dismiss his plea to club three corruption references against him into one.

Nawaz had challenged the decision through his lawyer Azam Tarar, stating that the verdict was given in haste and the accountability court did not take into account the points in the earlier IHC verdict.

The petition had pleaded the IHC to direct the accountability court ?to frame one charge and conduct a single trial? against the Sharif family in the three corruption references filed by the National Accountability Bureau.

Nawaz and his family are facing three corruption references filed by the NAB in light of the Supreme Court's judgment in the Panama Papers case. 

Nawaz and his two sons, Hussain and Hasan, are nominated in all three references whereas his daughter Maryam and her husband are only accused in one.