Shehbaz Sharif undergoes medical checkup at Kot Lakhpat Jail
The medical board carried out blood pressure, sugar and other test of ex-CM.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday underwent a medical checkup at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore
According to sources, the medical board carried out blood pressure, sugar and other tests of former Punjab Chief Minister (CM). However, the reports were normal.
On November 6, the Accountability Court had sent Shehbaz Sharif to jail on judicial remand after his previous physical remand ended in the case.
Earlier, a NAB team had shifted Shehbaz Sharif to Fatima Jinnah Medical University where he underwent a medical examination and stayed there for two hours.
On November 24, Shehbaz Sharif’s blood report shows 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”.
