Lahore: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has presented Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif before an accountability court to seek his physical remand in the Rs14 billion Ashiyana-i-Iqbal housing project scam.
The PML-N leader was transported to the court in an armored vehicle amid tight security.
As Shehbaz reached the court, dozens of charged PML-N workers besieged his vehicle with some getting on it and chanting slogans in favour of their leader.
They tried to obstruct the police from presenting Shehbaz before the court. The police personnel forced them to disembark from the vehicle and escorted the PML-N leader into the accountability judge’s chamber where the hearing of the case is underway.
A scuffle between PML-N workers and police personnel was also witnessed outside the court.
Special security measures are in place with heavy contingents of police personnel deployed inside and around the accountability court owing to protest by PML-N leaders and supporters.
Hamza Shehbaz, Marriyam Aurangzeb, and Uzma Bukhari are prominent among the party leaders who have gathered at the court.
The Bureau a day earlier arrested the PML-N president, who is the Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, inside its Lahore office where he was summoned to record his statement in connection with the Punjab Saaf Pani Company case.
Shehbaz reached the NAB office at 2:50pm. A combined investigation team of the country’s top anti-graft watchdog quizzed him for an hour over his alleged role in awarding contract to his “favourite firm” in violation of laws in the Ashiyana-i-Iqbal housing project.
The Bureau later issued a statement, declaring that former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif has been arrested in the scam.
Shahbaz’s blue-eyed officers, Lahore Development Authority former director general Ahad Cheema and Fawad Hasan Fawad, are already in NAB custody in the Ashiana Housing case.
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