Lahore (Staff Report): An accountability court on Tuesday granted 14 days more physical remand to Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and Punjab’s former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana Housing Scheme scam.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Shehbaz Sharif before an accountability court and requested for 15-day extension in the remand of Shahbaz Sharif.
However, the court granted 10 days remand.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president was transported to the court in a car with tinted windows.
Strict security arrangements are in place on the routes leading to the court's premises with blockades installed in several places.
Shehbaz's sons Hamza and Salman also reached the accountability court's premises.
On October 6, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested the PML-N president in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme case and presented him before an accountability court. The anti-graft body had then been granted a 10-day physical remand of the former Punjab CM.
