Nawaz Sharif (left), Maryam Nawaz (centre), and Captain (retired) Safdar (right). Photo: Geo News file 

ISLAMABAD: The accountability court will conduct the supplementary reference in the Avenfield case against deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family will be conducted on Friday.

A key witness presented by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), forensic expert Robert Radley, had told the court on Thursday that the Calibri font was available in 2005, albeit on a limited scale.

The court had also recorded the statement of another witness, solicitor Akhtar Raja ? via video-link from UK along with forensic handwriting and document examiner Robert W. Radley.

In his findings included in the JIT report, Radley had noted that he "identified the type font used to produce both certified declarations as ?Calibri?. However, [the font] was not commercially available before Jan 31, 2007 and as such, neither of the [documents] is correctly dated and [appear] to have been created at some later point in time."

Maryam 'knew' witness would be NAB's watershed

After the proceedings of the case were completed on Thursday, Maryam had taken to social media to claim that she knew the witness "could not lie".

She had also said that she had faith in God and knew that the witness NAB was relying on would be "their watershed".

"I was waiting for the day. I knew the witness they were banking on would be their watershed. I knew he could not lie. I had faith in Allah," she tweeted. 

At the last hearing of the case on February 13, Accountability Court-I Judge Mohammad Bashir had rejected the suspects' request to be exempted from appearance owing to a visit to London.

NAB had filed the supplementary Avenfield reference on January 22 this year.