ISLAMABAD – Former PM Nawaz Sharif has been issued notice by the SupremeCourt of Pakistan in a case of 1985 when he was the then Chief Minister ofPunjab.
As per the media report, the Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice tothen chief minister of Punjab Nawaz Sharif in a suo motu.
Notices have been issued in a case pertaining to illegal construction ofshops on Pakpattan shrine’s land in 1985.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian SaqibNisar heard the suo motu case. Additional advocate general Punjab and DewanGhulam Qutab’s lawyer Iftikhar Gilani appeared before the court for thehearing today.
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As the hearing went under way, the bench was informed that 8,000 kanal landof the Pakpattan shrine belonging to the Auqaf department was sold as peran order in 1985 to Dewan Ghulam Qutab.
“However, later the Auqaf department declared it a charitable endowment anda court judgment has also been passed in this regard,” the bench wasfurther told.
