Nawaz meets Shehbaz at NAB office, discusses key issues
Last updated on: 02 December,2018 10:10 pm
Nawaz Sharif expressed concern over health condition of his brother
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo on Sunday met former Punjab CM and party president Shehbaz Sharif at National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Lahore office.
During the meeting, matters pertaining to important affairs including NAB cases and party affairs came under discussion.
On the occasion, Nawaz Sharif expressed concern over health condition of his brother.
Maryam Nawaz, Hamza Shehbaz, Abbas Sharif’s son and other members of Sharif family also accompanied the PML-N supremo in the meeting.
Earlier, upon arrival at the NAB office, hundreds of part workers welcomed Nawaz Sharif.
On October 5, NAB had arrested Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam. The former chief minister was charged with awarding illegal contracts to his favorite firm.
He was apprehended during his appearance before NAB in Saaf Pani Company scam. Sources told that three files were tabled before him. The bureau quizzed Sharif regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy company for a survey of the Saaf Pani company.
The PML-N president had failed to satisfy the probing team of the bureau during the investigation and was ultimately arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog had claimed that the company did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of Rs 1.5 billion.
Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad became an approver in the case. Fawad Hassan Fawad, in his statement before NAB, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shahbaz Sharif.
The anti-graft agency 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 ex-Railways Minister Saad Rafique”.