Pakistan's PM Shahbaz Sharif got Relief, accountability courts withdraw big corruption cases
Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif has got relief from the accountability courts. Accountability courts have withdrawn large corruption cases. These included cases against Prime Minister Hamza Shahbaz National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf and former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
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Pakistan's PM Shahbaz Sharif has got a big relief from the courts of the country. Local media reported that Pakistan's accountability courts have withdrawn 50 major corruption cases against suspects, including those against Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws have been amended to provide this relief.
50 cases withdrawn
In fact, as reported by Geo News, Pakistan's accountability courts have returned cases against the Prime Minister, former Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz, National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf and former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the NAB. The cases sent back include the Ramzan Sugar Mills case against the Prime Minister and his son Hamza.
Relief for PM and his son
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered a corruption case against Shahbaz and his son Hamza in February 2019. The NAB alleged that during his tenure as the Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz abused his authority and caused a loss of Rs 213 million to the national exchequer through fraud and dishonesty.
what was the charge
The National Accountability Bureau had alleged that Ashraf, being water and power minister during the PPP government, had misused his powers in rental power projects. At the same time, PPP Senator Yousuf Raza Gilani was accused of illegally abusing the authority over the Universal Services Fund (USF). That too has been returned.
Cases were also withdrawn from these
The cases against Senator Salim Mandviwala, former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and PPP Senator Rubina Khalid have also been returned. The Modarba scam and company fraud cases have also been withdrawn from the accountability courts after the amendment in the NAB rules. In August, the National Assembly passed the National Accountability (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022. In which there was a demand to exclude private transactions from the purview of NAB.
