Shehbaz family goes to court to unfreeze properties

LAHORE: PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif’s family on Thursday approached an accountability court in Lahore to have their movable and immovable properties unfrozen, ARY News reported.

The opposition leader’s wife Nusrat Shehbaz and son Hamza Shehbaz moved an application challenging the court verdict in regard to freezing of their assets.

Both applicants filed the application through their lawyers, which has been fixed for hearing on Jan 3.

They state that the decision to freeze their properties is incorrect and request the court to order the authorities concerned to unfreeze their assets.

Last month, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore moved to get all movable and immovable properties of Shahbaz and his family members frozen in connection with a probe against them in the income beyond means and money laundering cases.

The bureau wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), director general of the excise and taxation department, Model Town Housing Society secretary, Judicial Employees Cooperative Housing Society secretary and Galliat Development Authority director general, asking them to freeze their properties with immediate effect.

Earlier on Dec 11, the accountability court had ordered authorities to freeze properties of the PML-N president and his family.

The court, in its verdict, directed authorities concerned to freeze all assets of Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz, Suleman Shehbaz, two wives of Shehbaz including Nusrat Shehbaz and Tehmina Durrani.