*LAHORE – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has summonedPakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz, her brothersHassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz on July 31 in the alleged money launderingcase.*

According to the sources, the corruption watchdog body has also summonedformer premier Nawaz Sharif’s nephew Abbas Sharif’s son Abdul Aziz on thesame date in Lahore.

The sources also revealed that the anti-graft watchdog body found evidencesrelated to doubtful transactions into foreign country from the side ofSharif family.

Earlier, the NAB has tightened a noose around the Sharif brothers andinitiated a probe related to non-payments in Brothers Sugar Mills.

According to the sources, the inquiry was initiated by NAB Rawalpindi. Itis learnt that those facing investigation include Nawaz Sharif, MaryamNawaz, Hamza Shehbaz, Yousaf Abbas and other owners of the sugar mills.

Shehbaz Sharif and his cousin* Mian Aslam Bashir*link owns57.77% shares of the mill. Mian Aslam Bashir sold Brothers Sugar Mills andBrothers Engineering fraudulently to Sheikh Nishat Ahmed. He also sold 119acres in Chunian and 110 acres of agriculture land in Bahawalnagar. Therewas also a stock of sugar amounting to Rs690 million in the mill and it wasalso sold to Sheikh Nishat. Later, neither Brothers Sugar Mills norBrothers Engineering nor agriculture land was handed over to him.

It has been alleged that *Sheikh Nishat*linkwasharassed in the name of Shehbaz Sharif when he insisted on getting the milland other land. He was told that Shehbaz Sharif owns the shares of themill. He got registered the cases against the Sharif family, but the policedid not support him.