Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was on Friday remanded into the custody of the country's anti-graft body for 14 days after he was arrested in a money laundering case, the third corruption case against him. It ordered the accountability bureau to present him on October 25.Sharif was shifted to NAB headquarters in Lahore where he will be interrogated for money laundering charges against him.A PML-N leader told that NAB arrested the three-time prime minister in another case only in anticipation of his possible bail in the Al-Azizia case. "The Imran Khan government is perturbed over the possible release of Sharif on bail in the Al-Azizia case therefore it has ordered NAB to book him in another false case to keep him in jail," he said.The Chaudhry Sugar Mills money laundering case is the latest in a series of corruption cases against Sharif and his family members. Sharif was ousted from the office of Prime Minister in 2017 in the Panama Papers case . "Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had suggested resignations from the parliament to protest against stealing the peoples' mandate.

Source: Economic Times October 11, 2019 10:07 UTC