Lahore: Shahbaz Sharif on Friday after his son Hamza Shahbaz filed acquittal plea in a accountability court of Lahore in the Ramzan Sugar Mills Case while the court has sought response of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) over the acquittal plea.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif once again fell ill and filed one day attendance pardon plea in the Ashiana Iqbal case, money laundering case and Ramzan sugar mills case.
When the accountability court judge Sajid Ali Awan started the hearing he was informed by the Shahbaz Sharif counsel that he will not appear before the court owing to pain in his stomach.
Hamza Shahbaz and other accused marked their attendance while cross questioning of three eyewitnesses were conducted in the money laundering case.
Additional joint registrar Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Kashif Islam apprised that the record of companies presented in the court, Shahbaz Sharif was never been sponsor of these companies nor he took any benefit from the companies.
Ramzan Sugar Mills Case
Shahbaz Sharif filed acquittal plea in the Ramzan sugar mills case and adopted the point of view that the government has broken all the record of political victimization adding that he were involved in baseless references for making him a target of political victimization and to suppress voices of the opposition.
The petition added that he as a chief minister saved billions of rupees while he never been director and share holder of the ramzan sugar mill.
Shahbaz Sharif apprised that he distributed his property among his children while the NAB could not prove any allegation on him. Therefore the court should order his acquittal in the case.
The court approving Shahbaz Sharif one day attendance pardon plea asked the NAB to respond on the Shahbaz Sharif acquittal plea while the court also sought arguments from the counsels in the acquittal plea of Hamza Shahbaz.
On the other hand the court also postponed the hearing on filed objections against freezing of Shahbaz Sharif family assets.
