LAHORE: Punjab government takes a stand against bail plea of former PMNawaz Sharif in Islamabad High Court.
The Punjab government on Saturday submitted the letter rejecting formerprime minister Nawaz Sharif’s bail extension at the Islamabad High Court(IHC).
The high court will once again decide on the matter concerning the formerprime minister’s bail. Sharif had been granted bail on medical grounds bythe Islamabad High Court for eight weeks in October 2019.
He had been serving a sentence in the Al-Azizia reference when he wasgranted bail, and had subsequently left Pakistan for London for medicaltreatment.
The letter stated that Sharif had failed to satisfy the Punjab government’scommittee on medical grounds regarding his health. The committee sent itsrecommendations to Punjab government which rejected the former primeminister’s bail extension.
Read Top Stories
Last month, Punjab health minister Yasmin Rashid had said that the formerprime minister had not provided his updated medical reports to theprovincial government. She criticised the PML-N leader and said thatpictures of him dining out in London had cast doubt about his healthcondition.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, DrFirdous Ashiq Awan said on Thursday that the government had written aletter to the UK authorities, asking them to deport the former primeminister.
“The letter to bring a foreigner back home has been sent”, she had said,referring indirectly to the former prime minister.
