AMRAIZ KHAN
LAHORE Former Chief Minister Punjab and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif did not turn-up on Friday to appear before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) due to coronavirus lockdown in the country. Attaullah Tarar spokesperson for PML(N) said that Sharif is a cancer survivor and his health does not permit him to appear before the corruption watchdog amid the current situation. In response to the summons, Tarar further said and maintained that Sharif has submitted his written reply to NAB in this regard, adding that the opposition eader was earlier detained for 130 days out of which he spent 61 days under NAB custody where he was interrogated in detail. It is worth mentioning here that the NAB had summoned the PML-N leader in a money laundering case on Friday and had asked him to submit bank details along with the loan taken from Barclays bank between 2005 to 2007. “A complete detail of your foreign assets along with the year of acquisition/ disposal and source of personal/bank loans along with details of loan repayment and current outstanding loan should be provided,” the questionnaire sent to Shehbaz Sharif said. Last year in December, NAB had issued orders to freeze 23 properties belonging to the former Punjab chief minister and his sons Hamza and Suleman Shehbaz over the allegation that they acquired assets beyond their known sources of income and committed money laundering.
