Shehbaz Sharif barred from traveling abroad for 30 days
The summary demanding to place Shehbaz's name on ECL has been decided to forward cabinet.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) and President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday has been barred from travelling abroad for 30 days.
According to sources, name of former Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) will remain in Interim National Identity List until placement on Exit Control List (ECL).
The summary demanding to include Shehbaz’s name in ECL has been decided to forward to the cabinet for approval.
Earlier, an accountability court in Lahore indicted Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing scandal after Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered to release him on bail.
All the accused rejected the charges. The PMLN president swore to God that the case against him is false and affirmed to bring facts in front of the nation.
He also accused the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of fraud.
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”.
