On Friday, Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from holding a government office by the supreme court of the country. The court, in its ruling said that Sharif was no longer "eligible to be an honest member of the parliament". it's a damning verdict for Sharif and automatically disqualifies him for the post of prime minister in the country. In the coming days Sharif will be most likely leaving the post. All because his office used a wrong Microsoft font, a choice that probably nailed the lies of Sharif in the court while he faced the verdict in Panama Papers corruption scandal. Just one font!

You have most likely heard about it. The font in question is Calibri and it probably played a big role in showing that Nawaz Sharif lied as he battled the corruption charges after Panama Papers surfaced. The problem for Sharif started in November 2016 after the Panama Papers expose. These papers, named such because they were leaked from a bank in Panama, showed how rich and corrupt across the world distributed their wealth to avoid detection. The papers showed that Sharif and his family too used offshore accounts to hide money obtained through corrupt means.

When the case reached the Pakistan supreme court, Sharif tried to clear his name using some documents that were supposed to show that the allegations in Panama Papers were wrong. In his support, Sharif's family -- to be specific his daughter Maryam Nawaz -- submitted copies of two documents in the court. These documents were dated February 2006 and they tried to ascertain that Sharif had nothing to do with the two properties in London that Panama Papers linked to him.

The move backfired. Reason: the font used in the documents. Apparently there were some font nerds in the supreme court of Pakistan and they caught one big anomaly in the documents submitted by Maryam Nawaz. The documents, which were prepared using Microsoft Word used Calibri font. But the interesting part is that the font wasn't available publicly until 2007. This hinted that the documents from 2006 that Sharif's family submitted in the court were actually prepared much later.

Although there were most likely more evidence against Sharif, it indeed looks like that the font fiasco weakened his case significantly. Calibri in a documents dated 2006 is one damning piece of evidence that clearly suggests that the document is fake and fabricated. Although Calibri was in existence in some places -- in beta for example -- the investigators in the case highlighted that Calibri wasn't available until 2007.

The person leading the investigation team reportedly wrote in the report, "I have identified the type font used to produce both certified declarations as Calibri. However, Calibri was not commercially available before 31st January 2007 and as such, neither of the original of the certified declarations is correctly dated and happy (sic) to have been created at some later point in time."

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