Shehbaz Sharif says facing difficult time in jail

Shehbaz arrived at the Parliament House to attend session of the lower house of the parliament

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Leader of Opposition in National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that with jail comes the hardship.

As per the details, the leader of opposition in National Assembly arrived at the Parliament House to attend session of the lower house of the parliament.

A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) escorted Shehbaz to Islamabad from Lahore via motorway.

NA Speaker Asad Qaiser had issued a production order of the PML-N president to enable the leader of the opposition to attend the upcoming session of the lower house of parliament.

Responding to a question after arriving at the Parliament House, the PML-N president said that a jail is a jail, adding that there are hardships.

He said that undergoing medical examinations is his right, but his medical gets delayed.

PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq held a meeting with the former Punjab CM and inquired about his health.

PML-N spokeswoman Marriyum Aurangzeb was also present in the meeting.

The meeting also discussed parliamentary affairs and NAB cases.

Earlier, the accountability court (AC) had granted one-day transit bail to Shehbaz Sharif to attend the National Assembly session. The home department produced Shehbaz Sharif before the Accountability Court, seeking his transit remand. A police team would escort Shehbaz to Islamabad where he would attend National Assembly session.

Shehbaz Sharif was sent to jail on judicial remand court had rejected NAB request for further extension in his physical custody in the previous hearing.

Allegations against Sharif

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.

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.

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.