LAHORE: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Shariffinally breaks silence over allegations of stealing earthquake victim funds.
Sharif on Saturday said he considers stealing from earthquake victims thesame as “feeding on corpses”, as he responded to allegations levelledagainst him in a British newspaper.
Earlier this week, UK newspaper the Mail on Sunday had published aninvestigative story alleging that Shehbaz Sharif, the president of thePakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had stolen funds from the UK’sDepartment for International Development (DFID) meant as aid for earthquakevictims in Pakistan.
The PML-N president appeared in an accountability court in Lahore for thehearing of the Ramzan Sugar Mills corruption case.
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Strict security arrangements were in place and a heavy contingent of policepresent outside the accountability court where a large number of PML-Nactivists had arrived for the hearing.
Speaking in the court, the PML-N president said that his son Hamza Shehbazwas in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and that theanti-graft body had to produce him in court.
