Pak court extends Shehbaz’s remand in housing scam

Lahore: An accountability court Monday extended the physical remand of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president and opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif in the custody of the country’s top anti-graft agency for another 10 days in a multi-crore housing scam.
Shehbaz was brought to the accountability court here amid high security. A large number of PML-N workers who gathered outside the court to see their leader clashed with police. Police baton charged the workers when they tried to get closer to Shehbaz.
The PML-N president was produced before the accountability court a day before the expiry of 14-day remand given to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on October 16. As the hearing resumed today, Shehbaz told the court he has been implicated in false cases and that the NAB is blackmailing him.
“I have blood cancer but the NAB is not allowing my medical check-up. The kind of restrictions I am facing in NAB were not even implaced in the martial law regimes,” he said. Shehbaz told the court. (PTI)