Parliamentary party meeting: PML-N leaders wear black ribbons to protest Shehbaz's arrest
Last updated on: 17 October,2018 11:21 am
PML-N leaders said that Shehbaz Sharif has not committed any corruption.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders on Wednesday attended parliamentary party meeting while wearing black ribbons to protest against the arrest of Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif.
During the meeting, PML-N leaders said that Shehbaz Sharif has not committed any corruption and that he always served the nation. The participants also chalked out strategy for the special session of the National Assembly (NA).
On the other hand, a two-member team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has escortedShehbaz Sharif to the Parliament House for session.
Earlier, an accountability court in Lahore had extended Shehbaz’s physical remand to the anti-graft watchdog for 14 days after his previous 10-day remand ended on October 16.
He was arrested on Oct 5 after appearing before the NAB team in Saaf Paani Company scheme. NAB said Shehbaz failed to satisfy the investigation team regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy firm and was therefore arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog said the firm did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of 1.5 billion rupees. It added that Fawad Hassan Fawad, the principal secretary of former premier Nawaz Sharif, had become an approver in the case.
Fawad, in his statement, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shehbaz Sharif.
The bureau said that the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons but Sharif cancelled it and later on awarded the contract to Lahore Casa Developers - a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by former Railways minister Saad Rafique.