FRESH GRAFT PROBE AGAINST NAWAZ SHARIF

ISLAMABAD: In fresh trouble for Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the country’s anti-graft body has launched another inquiry against him on a journalist’s complaint that over Rs 56 million was sent out of the country by his family between 1988 and 1991, a media report has said.

Sharif, his sons Hussain and Hassan, daughter Maryam, and son-in-law and former army captain Muhammad Safdar are already facing three corruption charges for money laundering and illegal offshore holdings in the Panama Papers scandal.

Sharif is currently in London along with Maryam to see his ailing wife Kulsoom Nawaz, despite the anti-graft body’s request to put their names on the Exit Control List fearing they may not return to face corruption cases in court. The fresh inquiry was launched by the National Accountability Bureau on the complaint by Asad Kharal, a journalist, NAB said.