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Shehbaz Sharif seeks bail from LHC on medical grounds
January 22, 2019
LAHORE, Jan 22 (INP): Leader of opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday filed a bail petition on the basis of his medical report in the Lahore High Court.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader filed the plea through his counsels Azam Nazir Tarar and Amjad Pervez.
“Since I am under treatment for my health condition is not good, therefore the court should release me on bail,” he pleaded to the high court.
Shehbaz Sharif said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had made the case against him on political grounds and in violation of the law.
The petition has made the federal government and the anti-graft body a party in the case.
The NAB had arrested Shehbaz Sharif on October 5 last year under corruption charges in Ashiana Iqbal scandal.
Sharif has also to face pending inquiries about Ramzan Sugar Mills and the assets beyond his means of income.
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