The meeting between the National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Law and Justice and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chief was postponed on Tuesday after Standing Committee Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf suffered a heart attack. The committee had summoned NAB Chaimran Justice (r) Javed Iqbal regarding allegations against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Earlier, the meeting was cancelled and then rescheduled for Tuesday. On Saturday, an update to the meeting agenda revealed that it had been changed to an in-camera briefing. Sources said that the NAB chair had confirmed his availability for the Tuesday meeting. Justice (r) Iqbal was directed to give a briefing on the probe into allegations of money laundering charges against Nawaz. On May 8, the anti-graft body had ordered an inquiry against Nawaz and others for allegedly laundering $4.9 billion to India. According to a NAB statement, its chairperson took notice of a media report that had made money laundering claims citing a World Bank report. However, the World Bank later clarified that its report neither mentioned names and amount, nor any alleged money laundering. Published in Daily Times, May 23rd 2018.