NAB comple­ted all legal formal­ities to issue former PM's arrest warran­ts, say source­sLAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to approach the court to declare former prime minister Nawaz Sharif proclaimed offender in illegal land allotment case involving Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rehman, The Express Tribune has learnt. The 70-year-old Sharif family patriarch is facing multiple graft charges and currently in London on bail for medical treatment. NAB summons Nawaz in Mir Shakil caseAccording to anti-corruption watchdog, Rahman had illegally acquired 54 plots, each measuring one kanal, at Canal Bank in H-Block of Lahore’s Johar Town in 1986 in connivance with then Punjab chief minister Nawaz Sharif. However, 54 plots were exempted in a single block on approval of Nawaz, who was then the Punjab CM. Under the exemption policy, 70% of the land was supposed to remain with the LDA but it was never transferred.

Source: The Express Tribune April 26, 2020 16:18 UTC