LAHORE: *PML N President Shahbaz Sharif seek yet another favour from theAccountability court.*
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif’s counsel onWednesday filed an application before the accountability court seeking hisexemption from personal appearance in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
In his plea, Shehbaz Sharif said that he out of the country to look afterhis ailing brother Nawaz Sharif who undergoing treatment in London andunable to appear before the court.
He appealed the court to grant him exemption from personal appearance andsaid that his counsel Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry will appear before the courton his behalf.
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Earlier on October 30, an accountability court in Lahore had directed theNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file a complete reference againstthe former chief minister of Punjab and Pakistan Muslim League NawazPresident Shehbaz Sharif in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
The accountability court’s judge Amjad Nazeer Chaudhry had resumed thehearing of the case where the Shehbaz Sharif’s counsel had presented amedical certificate of his client. The lawyer had said that Shehbaz Sharifwas not able to attend the hearing due to backache.