{"id":80044,"date":"2018-11-22T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=80044"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:04:48","slug":"nabs-request-for-7-day-transit-remand-of-shahbaz-approved-by-lahore-accountability-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=80044","title":{"rendered":"NAB&#8217;s request for 7-day transit remand of Shahbaz approved by Lahore accountability court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, Nov 22 (TNS): An accountability court in Lahore on Thursday approved the National Accountability Bureau&#8217;s (NAB) request for a seven-day remand of the Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N president appeared before the accountability court where Judge Syed Najmul Hassan was hearing NAB&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Insisting that he had not committed any corruption, Shahbaz told the court that NAB had not achieved anything from all the physical remands granted so far.<br \/>buy elavil online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthpointtv.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentyone\/inc\/new\/elavil.html\">elavil<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The NAB prosecutor objected, saying that today the merit of the case was not being discussed \u2014 only the request for the transit remand.<\/p>\n<p>Shahbaz told the court that his family was not given permission to meet him this week despite the court giving an order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told NAB that meeting [them] is my right, it is not some favour. But NAB did not let me meet my family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>NAB prosecutor Waris Ali Janjua in response implied that no one had come to meet Shahbaz.<br \/>buy orlistat online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthpointtv.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentyone\/inc\/new\/orlistat.html\">orlistat<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered the director general (DG) NAB to allow Shahbaz to meet his family according to the law and added that a meeting should be arranged once a week.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered that Shahbaz&#8217;s medical check up be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Third transit remand<br \/>\nThis is the third time NAB requested Shahbaz&#8217;s transit remand. On November 10, Shahbaz&#8217;s physical remand was extended until Nov 24. Earlier, on November 6, an accountability court in Islamabad had extended his transit remand until Nov 10.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing today, the NAB prosecutor asked for a seven-day transit remand of the PML-N president, which was approved.<\/p>\n<p>Janjua said that the speaker of the National Assembly had issued production orders for Shahbaz and added that his physical remand was ending on Nov 24.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N president&#8217;s lawyer said that NAB should be given transit remand of Shahbaz till Nov 24, adding that a seven-day transit remand was not required.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said that when Shahbaz&#8217;s physical remand ends, he will be presented in the Islamabad accountability court.<\/p>\n<p>Janjua said that if the NA session ends before Nov 24, Shahbaz should be presented in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>The court inquired how long the session was, to which Shahbaz responded, &#8220;I have neither a newspaper nor a TV, I don&#8217;t know&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>NA Speaker Asad Qaiser had issued a production order for a third time to enable the leader of the opposition to attend the upcoming session of the lower house of parliament starting from Friday, sources told media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The session has been summoned by the speaker on the requisition of the opposition which wanted to discuss a number of issues, including the alleged political victimisation of the government\u2019s opponents by NAB.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition submitted the requisition notice signed by 88 members soon after the prorogation of the assembly on Nov 9. The opposition has submitted a five-point agenda with the notice for discussion during the requisitioned session.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda includes a discussion on \u201cuse of NAB as a tool for political coercion, government\u2019s 100-day performance, economic situation in the country, especially the alarming price hikes and inflation, progress of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and law and order situation in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that the speaker has had to summon the assembly session on the requisition of the opposition since the Shahbaz&#8217;s arrest by NAB on Oct 5.<\/p>\n<p>Security arrangements have been tightened today and a large contingency of police have been deployed around the accountability court.<\/p>\n<p>Roads leading to the court have also been closed with containers.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations against Sharif<br \/>\nAccording to a NAB notice sent to the former Punjab chief minister on January 16, 2018, Sharif is accused of ordering the cancellation of award of contract of Ashiana-i-Iqbal to successful bidder Chaudhry Latif and Sons, and engineering the award of the contract to Lahore Casa Developers, a proxy group of Paragon City Private Limited, which resulted in the loss of approximately Rs193 million.<\/p>\n<p>He is also accused of directing the Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC) to assign the Ashiana-i-Iqbal project to the Lahore Development Authority (LDA), resulting in the award of contract to Lahore Casa Developers, causing a loss of Rs715m and the ultimate failure of the project.<\/p>\n<p>NAB has also accused Sharif of directing the PLDC to award the consultancy services of the Ashiana-i-Iqbal project to Engineering Consultancy Services Punjab (ECSP) for Rs 192m while the actual cost was supposed to be Rs35m as quoted by Nespak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, Nov 22 (TNS): An accountability court in Lahore on Thursday approved the National Accountability Bureau&#8217;s (NAB) request for a seven-day remand of the Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif. The PML-N president appeared before the accountability court where Judge Syed Najmul Hassan was hearing NAB&#8217;s request. 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