LAHORE: NAB that had arrested the ousted PM Nawaz Sharif in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case today has been granted his 14-day physical remand by a court. 
According to details NAB team had taken Nawaz Sharif into custody form Lahore Central (Kot Lakhpat) Jail where he is serving a seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia reference. Sharif was produced before Accountability Court Judge Chaudhry Ameer Muhammad Khan who granted NAB his 14-day physical remand.
NAB has accused Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and others of involvement in money laundering by means of sales and purchase of the shares of Chaudhry Sugar Mills.
Members of Nawaz Sharif’s family are accused of being involved in money laundering under the garb of sale/purchase of the sugar mill’s shares. Incidentally (according to NAB) Nawaz Sharif’s daughter (who was nabbed last August in the very case) and his cousin Yousuf Abbas happens to have more than twelve million shares in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills. Nawaz Sharif has been accused of being a direct beneficiary of Chaudhry Sugar Mills.
Hafiz Asadullah Awan, the NAB prosecutor, has informed court that in 2016, Nawaz Sharif was the biggest shareholder of Chaudhry Steel Mills and remained a shareholder in Chaudhry Sugar Mills as well as in Shamim Sugar Mills.
NAB prosecutor while maintaining that Chaudhry Sugar Mills accounts had received foreign funds, told that in 1992 one foreign company (name of the owner of which is still not known) had provided Nawaz Sharif Rs. 55.5 million.
Conspicuous among others present outside the court there were PML-N Spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, PML-N Senator Asif Kirmani, Nawaz’s son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar and Pervaiz Rasheed.
Relevant pieces published earlier:
Avenfield Convicts Nawaz and Maryam get B-Class in Adiala
RAWALPINDI: Following a medical checkup at Adiala Jail, Avenfield Convict Nawaz Sharif was lodged in the Cell No. 11 while Maryam Safdar too was given B-lass in the Women’s jail.
Accountability court will be hearing the (yet-to-be-decided) cases inside the Jail.
i) The Avenfield convicts Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Safdar have been arrested by a three-member team of NAB officials here at the airport today around 9.15PM. Their passports were confiscated by the authorities and they were transferred to a chartered plane for onward journey to Islamabad airport where they reached in 40 minutes. From new Islamabad Airport, the father and daughter duo was taken to Adiala Jail in different squads.
Meanwhile, hundreds of PML-N workers (who converged at Lahori Gate and Allama Iqbal International Airport) were arrested u/s 3 of Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance 1960 and Elections Act 2017. However, no heavyweight has been taken into custody. Avenfield corruption case convicts Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Safdar returned to Pakistan in order to file an appeal against the conviction, that was not possible from abroad.
ii) Avenfield convicts Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Safdar reached Abu Dhabi today from London. They were initially expected to reach Lahore at 6.15PM onboard Etihad Airways’ flight No. EY243, but due to a delay in the flight schedule they reach Lahore airport at 7.45PM.Savants at the helm of affairs insinuated that the government of Pakistan would attempt to arrest the duo at Abu Dhabi, but it seems they failed to do so. The conspiracy theorists are insinuating that the 90-minute-delay in the flight schedule is meant to buy time in order to persuade the authorities apropos the arrest of the convicts. Presently, the establishment’s plan is to transport the two convicts by means of helicopters from Lahore to Rawalpindi’s Adhiala Jail.
In order to contain the agitation internet and mobile services in Lahore have been suspended. PML-N, despite the arrests of hundreds of its leaders and workers, is all set to manifest street power. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that Nawaz Sharif would be received at Lahore Airport on his arrival from London on Friday. Addressing a news conference at the PML-N Model Town Secretariat he said he would lead a rally from the Muslim Masjid, Lohari, to the Lahore airport to receive Nawaz Sharif. He condemned the alleged arrest of the party leaders and workers. PML-N’s leaders including Marriyum Aurangzeb, Ayyaz Sadiq, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Sayed Mushahid Hussain, Pervaiz Malik, Hamza Shehbaz were present on the occasion. Shehbaz said he already had announced that the rally would remain completely peaceful and party workers would not damage any property.
“We are peaceful people and believe in the supremacy of democracy,” Shehbaz added. He claimed the accountability court could not prove corruption against the PML-N ‘Quaid’ and thus described Nawaz as ‘Sadiq and Ameen.’ He claimed that the PML-N was being targeted and added the party leaders and workers were not afraid of jails and would receive Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on Friday (July 13). Shehbaz Sharif claimed the PML-N had served the masses, and added it ended load-shedding, built China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), restored peace in Karachi and set up mega public welfare projects. Answering a question, Shehbaz said they would go to elections despite any high-handedness by the district administration. “Free and fair elections are need of the hour and all parties must be allowed to campaign freely,” he suggested.
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