ISLAMABAD – Opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif has been granted relief fromthe Accountability Court.
An Accountability Court in Islamabad on Wednesday extended transit remandof Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif tillNovember 6.
The former Punjab chief minister was produced before Judge Mohammad Bashirtoday by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Pakistan Muslim League-N(PML-N) president will have to appear before the accountability court onNovember 7.
Shehbaz asked for transit remand because he could not keep travellingbetween the NAB office in Lahore and Islamabad, where he has to attendNational Assembly sessions. He had initially requested an extension tillNovember 9.
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He said he is not ill but has severe back pain and cannot travel so much.The NAB has physical remand of the PML-N president till November 7, afterwhich he will be presented before an accountability court.
