Summary A medical board comprises doctors from PIMS will examine Shahbaz Sharif.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shahbaz Sharif will undergo medical checkup today (Thursday).
A medical board comprises doctors from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) will examine Shahbaz Sharif at Minister’s Enclave in Islamabad.
It is pertinent to mention here that Shahbaz Sharif has been complaining about back pain for some time due to which his MRI was conducted at PIMS last week.
According to sources, Shahbaz Sharif will remain at the Minister’s Enclave and would not be shifted to Lahore due to his health condition. His residence in the Minister’s Enclave has been declared as sub-jail.
Shahbaz Sharif’s arrest
NAB had arrested Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam on October 5. The former chief minister was charged with awarding illegal contracts to his favorite firm.
He was apprehended during his appearance before NAB in Saaf Pani Company scam. Sources told that three files were tabled before him. The bureau quizzed Sharif regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy company for a survey of the Saaf Pani company.
The PML-N president had failed to satisfy the probing team of the bureau during the investigation and was ultimately arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog had claimed that the company did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of Rs 1.5 billion.
Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad became an approver in the case. Fawad Hassan Fawad, in his statement before NAB, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shahbaz Sharif.
The anti-graft agency said that the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons but Sharif cancelled it and later on awarded the contract to Lahore Casa Developers – a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by ex-Railways Minister Saad Rafique”.
