Shehbaz Sharif to undergo medical checkup today
PMLN president Shehbaz Sharif had complained of back pain.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif on Sunay will undergo medical checkup including Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test in a private laboratory in Islamabad.
The relative authorities have already taken appointment for the opposition leader’s checkup and today National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will escort him to the laboratory for checkup.
Earlier, PMLN president Shehbaz Sharif had complained of back pain after which the doctors had suggested MRI test.
It is pertinent here to mention that on November 24, Shehbaz Sharif’s blood report had shown signs of cancer recurrence. His medical examination was conducted after he complained of throat ache.
Shehbaz Sharif’s arrest
NAB had arrested Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam on October 5. 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”.
