LHC grants 14-day extension to Hamza Shahbaz for London stay

E-Paper | April 27, 2026

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday gave PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz permission to extend his stay in London by 14 days.

Hamza is facing a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation into Ramzan Sugar Mills and holding assets beyond his known sources of income. He flew to London in the first week of February after the court ordered the removal of his name from the Exit Control List and granted him conditional permission to travel abroad for 10 days.

Lawyer Azam Nazeer Tarar filed Hamza's petition today on behalf of the PML-N leader.

Hamza, in his petition, appealed to the court to allow him to stay on in London for two more weeks with his newborn daughter, who is to undergo a cardiac procedure due to complications at birth.

He will return as soon as she recovers, the petition stated.

Doctors have advised Shahbaz and his wife that their child must undergo the life-saving surgery, a PML-N member quoted in an earlier Dawn report said.

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Rana Bilal is a Lahore-based reporter for Dawn News (TV) with over nine years of experience covering legal affairs, justice-sector developments, and environmental issues. He can be found on X at @ranabilaldawn.

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Asif

Feb 11, 2019 11:39am

One a liar always a liar

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Ashraf the great

Feb 11, 2019 11:39am

Why?

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Anonymouseeeee

Feb 11, 2019 11:46am

Why is it that all these criminals have emergencies when the noose is getting tight around their necks.

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The Truth Spy

Feb 11, 2019 11:46am

The whole family is under some sort of treatment

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Juxtice

Feb 11, 2019 11:51am

They always find excuses not to return. If it’s not the wife, brother, sister, father or mother now it’s the children for which their reason is for not returning. I think we should start getting strict with these corrupt politicians and others. No more mercy. His brother Salman , brother in law, Isaq Dar are still hiding in London and now this excuse.

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HOPE

Feb 11, 2019 12:15pm

Best wishes Mr Hamza. May your daughter have a successful cardiac surgery.

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Feb 11, 2019 12:21pm

and who is paying for that? pakistan taxpayers?

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ibrahim

Feb 11, 2019 12:54pm

i think all of these members get their cardiac tests, operations done so that they cant use the excuse to flee from the tightening noose.

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Raza

Feb 11, 2019 01:17pm

I am staunch opponent of PMLN and am very much for accountability of the thieves but a father must stay with his daughter in medical emergency. Period.

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Anti-Corruption_Pakistani

Feb 11, 2019 01:23pm

Here is another son of accused Shabaz Sharif looking for excuses to become absconder like his elder brother. Suddenly, these compulsive liars either become sick or take advantage of the law, as they believe they are from another planet. We have to change this mindset of Sharif and Zardari families, otherwise, nation will not become self sufficient, fully sovereign and poorer will become well below the poverty line. It is our choice to get rid of black sheep from our society or pay the price - now or never!

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Sid

Feb 11, 2019 01:35pm

If the courts allow this, they should ask for the full independent medical records to be provided by the hospital where his daughter is being treated... Also the court should make it clear that further extensions and delays will not be allowed.

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Bilal Khan

Feb 11, 2019 01:38pm

They should just settle and stay in London forever. It seems Pakistan for them is just a place to loot!

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Tahir A

Feb 11, 2019 01:58pm

We will see how far Harley St doctors will go in issuing a medical certificate to support the condition.

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Uzair

Feb 11, 2019 01:59pm

The reason and duration seems sound, but the practice of getting extensions, knowing you might stay for longer isn't a good one. Instead of getting and extension later, it would have been to file for 28 or 30 days in the first place.

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Feb 11, 2019 02:01pm

Wish all the best to the newborn. But sad that someone who has game made lahore into ‘Paris’ did not bother to make hospital that either he elderly of his family nor the new born in his family can use!

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M.Mudassir Siddiqui

Feb 11, 2019 02:09pm

@Sid, absolutely full medical record is desired before granting further extension

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Afzal

Feb 11, 2019 02:23pm

Is there no healthy people in Sharif family?

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Khalil

Feb 11, 2019 02:51pm

He will not come back. Court should freeze his assets in Pakistan.

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kashif

Feb 11, 2019 02:53pm

I wish his daughter all well but what these people have done while ruling Pakistan for so long, not a single hospital where they themselves can be treated?

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Practical

Feb 11, 2019 03:14pm

@Ob, WHEN you vote for them in next election they will build state of art Hospitals for all poor Pakistanis. Please vote for them first.

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Sennakot

Feb 11, 2019 03:42pm

Hamza would not have left Pakistan if he intended to return

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Citizen

Feb 11, 2019 03:48pm

Should not have removed his name from ECL. Time to put other potential runaways on ECL.

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Mahmood

Feb 11, 2019 04:19pm

No doubt, looking for ways to stay put in the UK on a permanent bases and make way for his father and uncle to also join him soon, instead of rotting in Jail in Pakistan. It is as obvious as night and day.

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Gulab Khan of Gulabkhana

Feb 11, 2019 04:32pm

There we go again! As feared, the usual excuse of health issues to escape from accountability.

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Saqib

Feb 11, 2019 04:56pm

Would this leniency be bestowed on an average Pakistani? Pakistan has always double standards to deal with the elite as this country was created just to serve them

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Ahsan Gul

Feb 11, 2019 06:23pm

Why PML-N members are always looking stay or trips to England?

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fairplay

Feb 11, 2019 06:37pm

what bond or surety does the court ask for to.provide an extension? none. soon there will be more requests for extensions, there is an obvious pattern here.

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Ahsan Gul

Feb 12, 2019 12:12am

When incompetent like Hamza and Shabaz being elected and become part of government THEN something is really wrong.

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Saif Zulfiqar

Feb 12, 2019 12:16am

Has Shariffs priced an honest person?

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Gul Hasan

Feb 12, 2019 03:34am

The guy has successfully engineered his escape. The entire nation has become corrupt.

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Naeem

Feb 12, 2019 06:08am

He will join Ishaq Dar and never come back enjoying billions of loot

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