NAB issues arrest warrant against Sharif in land case

Lahore, April 27

Pakistan’s anti-graft body has issued an arrest warrant against embattled former PM Nawaz Sharif in a 34-year-old land related corruption case. The 70-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is currently in London for medical treatment.

According to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sharif illegally leased the land to Jang Group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman in 1986, when the three-time premier was the chief minister of Punjab province. “The NAB has issued arrest warrants of PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif in the land case involving Jang Group editor-in-chief Rehman. Sharif was served notices in the case, but no response came from him,” an official said.

This is the fifth corruption case registered against the three-time premier since his ouster from the office of the prime minister by the Supreme Court in July 2017 in the Panama Papers case.

The official said the NAB would move the accountability court to declare Sharif a proclaimed offender over non-cooperation in the investigation. —PTI

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