LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has allowed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif to fly abroad for treatment.
Justice Ali Baqir Najafi on Friday announced the ruling on Shehbaz Sharif’s petition seeking exclusion of his name from the blacklist. The court permitted the opposition leader to go abroad for eight weeks.
It is worth mentioning here that Shehbaz Sharif had filed a petition in LHC, stating that he is a cancer survivor and needs to go abroad for treatment, but the federal government had put his name on the blacklist.
The Ministry of Interior, federation and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) were named as respondents in the plea.
On April 23, Shehbaz Sharif was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail after getting bail from the Lahore High Court in a money laundering and assets beyond means case.
Shahbaz was arrested in September 2020 in money laundering and assets beyond means case by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after a court in Lahore had rejected his bail application in the money laundering case.
The NAB had alleged that Shahbaz’s family had assets of around Rs16.5 million till 1990 which increased to over Rs7 billion in 2018.
