Pakistan’s opposition leader Hamza Shehbaz nabbed in graft case

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested opposition leader Hamza Shehbaz on Tuesday on money laundering charges after a two-member bench of the Lahore High Court rejected his interim bail plea.
Shehbaz, who is the leader of the opposition in Punjab Assembly and son of former Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, is a veteran Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader.
Dozens of PML-N workers gathered outside the court protesting the arrest and briefly blocked the roads.
The country’s anti-graft body arrested former President Asif Ali Zardari after Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected his bail plea in a separate graft case.
Prime minister’s adviser on information Firdous Ashiq Awan hailed the move and said that the two arrests showed the law was equal for everyone.
Earlier, in April this year, an accountability court indicted Shehbaz and his father in graft cases and for misuse of public funds and authority.