ISLAMABAD – An accountability court on Friday admitted a petition of theNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) seeking its permission to auction theseized properties of PML-N supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

The judge ordered the authorities to auction the moveable and immoveableproperties of Nawaz Sharif and deposit the money into the nationalexchequer. NAB Deputy Prosecutor General Sardar Muzaffar Khan Abbasi filedthe petition.

Abbasi stated that the accountability court had declared Sharif aproclaimed offender in the Toshakhana reference. Despite a lapse of sixmonths, the former premier did not surrender himself before the court, headded. Court had declared Nawaz Sharif a proclaimed offender on August 17and ordered attaching his property on Oct 1.

The seized properties include Hudaibia Paper Mills, Ittefaq Foundry, BakshTextile and Hudaibia Engineering.

Furthermore, the assets of Sharif in Upper Mall Road area, the fish farmbuilt on 110 acres of land, 20 acres of land in Lahore, a bungalow locatedin Murree, Shangla’s house, five luxurious cars registered against the nameof the former prime minister will be auctioned