Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president and opposition leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif on Monday underwent medical checkup at the Ministers’ Enclave.
The medical board consisting doctors from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital and Polyclinic hospital examined Sharif, and advised him to be on bed rest, besides taking medicines regularly. On November 24, Shehbaz Sharif’s blood report had shown signs of cancer remmission. His medical examination was conducted after he complained of throat ache. Earlier on November 6, an accountability court had sent Sharif to jail on a judicial remand after the end of a period of physical remand in an ongoing inquiry concerning the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme initiated during his CMship in Punjab.
A NAB team arrested Sharif on October 5 on charges that he had awarded illegal contracts to a specific firm.
The PML-N president was apprehended during his appearance before NAB in a separate inquiry concerning the Saaf Pani Company scam.
The anti-graft watchdog that has been widely criticised for targeting only opposition parties has claimed that the Saaf Pani Company did not conduct any survey before doling out a lucrative sum of Rs1.5 billion. Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad has become an approver in the case. Fawad, in his statement before NAB, has apparently claimed that he had awarded the contract to a ‘favourite firm’ in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shehbaz Sharif.
Published in Daily Times, December 18th2018.
