LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz appeared before an accountability court in Lahore on Monday.
Both the PML-N leaders presented their arguments before Accountability Court judge Najamul Hassan in the Ashiana Housing scam.
The court also extended the judicial remand of Khawaja Saad Rafique and Khawaja Salman Rafique till March 19.
Besides, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has also filed Ramzan Sugar Mills reference.
Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz have been nominated in the reference.
The accountability court in Lahore had on February 18 indicted PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing scandal.
Accountability Court Judge Syed Najmul Hassan charged ten suspects including Shebaz Sharif and summoned the witnesses in the next hearing.
All the accused rejected the charges.
The PML-N president swore to God that the case against him is false and affirmed to bring facts in front of the nation. He had also accused the NAB of fraud.
Sharif has been accused of deciding on his own of transferring the project into the Public Partnership Model.
Shehbaz Sharif was taken in the custody of NAB on October 5 for his alleged involvement in Rs 14 billion Ashiana Housing Scheme scam.
Later, he was sent to jail on judicial remand.
Senior bureaucrat Fawad Hassan Fawad and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) former director general Ahad Cheema and others had been arrested in connection with the housing scam.
The anti-graft watchdog launched an investigation into the scam in November last after receiving a number of complaints.
