The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday constituted a bench, on a request of inquiry by a commission, to probe convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s medical reports.
IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah constituted the special bench to hear the petition. The bench would comprise Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani. The case will be heard on November 24.
An application seeking the constitution of a commission to identify those who were responsible for creating “fake” medical reports of former premier was filed in IHC in October.
The plea was filed by a citizen named Zaman Mughal through his counsel Rana Ahmed Raza Advocate. It nominated Nawaz, his brother Shehbaz Sharif, interior and health secretaries, Punjab health secretary, NAB chairman, Punjab IG and Lahore CCPO as respondents.
The plea adopted the stance that instead of undergoing medical treatment in London, Sharif was maligning the state and its institutions.
It stated that the purpose of PML-N supremo’s speeches was to isolate Pakistan in the world, retain the country in the FATF grey list and divert the attention of global bodies from the human rights violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. It deplored the use of language against senior military officials of the country by Sharif.
The petitioner stated that according to the government representatives, the PML-N chief had submitted “fake” medical reports. He requested the court to constitute a commission to identify those who were responsible for creating fake medical reports of Sharif.
Meanwhile, the hearing of the petition filed against freezing of assets belonging to Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif’s family has been adjourned till November 25, on Saturday as the accountability court’s judge Jawad-ul-Hassan is on leave.
The hearing at the accountability court was adjourned without any proceedings due to the absence of judge. The court had earlier sought arguments from the lawyers of Shehbaz Sharif’s family in the case.
Shehbaz Sharif had stated in his plea that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) froze his family’s properties in utter disregard for the actual facts as assets cannot be frozen at a time when the investigation process is still underway.
He requested the accountability court to review its verdict of allowing the national graft buster to freeze the assets.
Last year on Dec 11, the accountability court had ordered authorities to freeze properties of the PML-N president and his family. The court, in its verdict, directed the authorities concerned to freeze all assets of Shehbaz, Hamza Shehbaz, Suleman Shehbaz, two wives of Shehbaz including Nusrat Shehbaz and Tehmina Durrani.
