LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday told an accountability court that the assets owned by the wife of Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and three others had been attached for being absconders in the reference of money laundering and illegal assets.

A prosecutor of the NAB submitted a compliance report before the court about the completion of the process for the attachment of the properties of the absconders under section 88 of CrPC.

Other absconders include Shehbaz’s son Suleman, daughter Rabia Imran and son-in-law Haroon Yousaf.

Three prosecution witnesses testify in Ashiana case

The jail officials also produced Shehbaz and his son Hamza, the leader of opposition in Punjab Assembly, before the court.

The counsel of Shehbaz cross-examined a prosecution witness and the court summoned more witnesses on Jan 4.

Mr Shehbaz complained to the court about the non-provision of the medical facility he required for being a cancer patient. He said his treatment had been delayed at the behest of the government.

Presiding Judge Jawadul Hassan directed him to file a separate application in this regard which would be decided as per the law.

Another accountability court testified three prosecution witnesses in Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme reference against Shehbaz, former principal to prime minister Fawad Hassan Fawad, former director general of Lahore Development Authority Ahad Cheema and others.

In this case, Shehbaz had been exempted from personal hearing in the trial.

CONVICTION:An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday convicted a leader of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) in one more case of terror financing registered by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).

ATC-III Presiding Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar handed down 15-year-and-six-month imprisonment to Prof Zafar Iqbal in FIR No 21 of 2019.

The CTD had registered as many as 41 FIRs against the leaders of the JuD in different cities. The trial courts have so far decided 27 cases.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020