LAHORE: The National\nAccountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has approved filing of a reference against\nformer prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Jang Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur\nRahman and two others in a land case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The approval to file\na reference against the four suspects in the 34-year-old case was given in a\nmeeting of the NAB regional board here on Wednesday with its Director General\nShahzad Saleem in the chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other two\nsuspects are former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director Humayun Faiz\nRasool and former director (land) Mian Bashir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the\nNAB, Mr Rahman was allotted 54 plots (each measuring one kanal) in H-block of\nJohar Town Phase-II Lahore being the holder of general power of attorney on\nbehalf of Hidayat Ali and Hikmat Ali by the then Punjab chief minister Nawaz\nSharif in 1986 in violation of the relevant laws\/rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The suspects in\ncollusion with each other had also included two streets in the allotted land,\nthus making the total allotted land to Mr Rahman 59 kanals. The land of common\npassage (street) could not be sold to any person according to the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Rahman prepared a\nsale deed of the 54 plots in favour of his wife and children being the general\npower of attorney holder of Hidayat Ali. \u201cThese plots were then transferred to\nMr Rahman by his wife and children. The land for which Mr Rahman obtained\ngeneral power of attorney was not located at one place in compact form, rather\nit was located in the form of three pockets at different locations,\u201d the bureau\nstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the reference,\nNawaz Sharif and the two LDA officers were accused of misuse of authority in\nallotting the precious land along the canal to Mr Rahman in violation of the\nrules. Under the LDA exemption policy, not more than 15 plots measuring one\nkanal each could be exempted to Mr Rahman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Nawaz did not\nrespond to any of NAB\u2019s summons and questions, his arrest warrants had already\nbeen issued and the bureau announced to have moved the accountability court to\ndeclare him a proclaimed offender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A source told Dawn\nthat the NAB had made 16 prosecution witnesses part of the reference to be\nfiled in the accountability court shortly after final approval from its\nchairman, retired justice Javed Iqbal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Rahman has been\non judicial remand after being arrested by the NAB on March 12. He is in\nhospital on medical grounds. He claimed that he had bought the land in question\nfrom a private party and no illegality had been committed in this respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former premier\nSharif had left for London in November after the Lahore High Court granted him\na four-week permission to go abroad for treatment. He had submitted an undertaking\nto the court to return to Pakistan citing his record of facing the law and\njustice within four weeks or as soon as he is declared healthy and fit to\ntravel by doctors. Mr Sharif was also given bail in the Al-Azizia Mills\ncorruption case in which he was serving a seven-year prison sentence in Kot\nLakhpat Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr\nAdnan Khan, personal physician of Mr Sharif, the former premier has been\ndiagnosed with \u201ccomplicated coronary artery\/ischemic heart disease with\nsignificant disease burden. Cardiac perfusion scans scheduled\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryam Nawaz\nrecently said her father was a high-risk patient therefore his cardiac\ncatheterisation\/coronary intervention had been postponed owing to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper: Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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