Shehbaz Sharif To Appear Before Court On Tuesday

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Shehbaz Sharif to appear before court on Tuesday

Shehbaz Sharif will attend the National Assembly session for fiscal budget 2018-9.

Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 9th June, 2019) Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has returned to Pakistan.

Shehbaz Sharif will attend the National Assembly session for fiscal budget 2018-9.

He will appear before the court on June 11 in corruption cases.

Shehbaz Sharif arrived at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport at 4:49am via PIA flight PK-758.

A large number of PML-N workers had gathered at the airport to welcome the party president. Strict security arrangements were made on the occasion.

The party workers took him from the airport to his Model Town residence in the form of a rally.

The party workers chanted slogans upon his arrival and distributed sweets.

Shehbaz Sharif spent seven weeks in London for medical treatment.

The PML-N president left for London in April to visit his grandchildren and to undergo a medical check-up. His doctors had advised him not to travel.

He had taken an exemption from his court cases.

Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Hamza Shehbaz, were indicted in Ramzan Sugar Mills case wherein the bureau had alleged that Shehbaz Sharif, as the chief minister Punjab, misused his authority and got constructed a 10-km sludge carrier in district Chiniot to facilitate Ramzan Sugar Mills, which was owned by his sons.

The bureau alleged that the act caused a loss of Rs 213 million to the national exchequer.

Shehbaz Sharif and others were also indicted in Ashiana-e-Iqbal housing case. NAB had accused Shehbaz Sharif of misusing his authority which resulted in failure of the project, depriving 61,000 applicants of housing units. NAB alleged that Shehbaz Sharif, in connivance with former DG LDA Ahad Cheema, awarded the contract to a proxy.

A Lahore High Court division bench had already granted bail to Shehbaz Sharif in Ashiana and Ramzan Sugar Mills cases.

Mahnoor Sheikh

The writer is News Editor, Pakistan Point. She has graduated in Mass Communication and has worked in various media houses