Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons have been given 30 days to appear before the Islamabad Accountability Court in the Panama Papers case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) today said if they fail to appear, they will be declared proclaimed offenders. NAB said, the process of issuing red warrants for Hassan and Hussain, who are in the UK along with their ailing mother Kulsoom, will begin after the completion of one month.
The court is trying Hussain and Hassan along with their father Nawaz Sharif, sister Maryam and brother-in-law captain (retired) Muhammad Safdar in corruption cases filed against them by the NAB on the Supreme Court’s instruction in the Panama Papers case.
It said, they have been given a 30-day deadline till November 10 to appear before the court and the copies of the notice have been pasted at their residences. The NAB said Sharif’s sons will be declared proclaimed offenders and their properties attached if they failed to meet the deadline.
