NA speaker issues Shehbaz's production order to attend session on Oct 29
NAB team will escort Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president to Islamabad for the session.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – National Assembly Speaker (NA) Asad Qaiser on Saturday has issued production order for Opposition Leader in NA Shehbaz Sharif to attend session on October 29.
According to details, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team will escort Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president to Islamabad for the session.
It is to be mentioned here that Shehbaz Sharif, who is currently in NAB custody on a physical remand in Ahsiana Housing scam, attended the previous NA session on October 17 after his production order was issued.
Physical remand extended
Earlier, an accountability court in Lahore had extended Shehbaz physical remand to the anti-graft watchdog for 14 days after his previous 10-day remand ended on October 16.
During the proceedings, Shehbaz maintained he himself ordered investigation into corruption allegations in the housing scheme and denies awarding contracts to a favorite firm.
Shehbaz Sharif arrested
He was arrested on October 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 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 former Railways minister Saad Rafique.
