Daily Times

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has reportedly decided to initiate proceedings to bring Hasan and Hussain Nawaz back to Pakistan through Interpol.

According to sources, the anti-graft body will also initiate proceedings to repatriate former finance minister Ishaq Dar and Ali Imran.

The anti-graft body has also recommended placement of names of Punjab government secretaries, Ali Jan and Najam Shah, on the Exit Control List (ECL), sources added.

Azam Khan, caretaker interior minister, says the authority to bring anyone back through the Interpol rests with the Ministry of Interior. The cabinet will decide whether the names of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family among others will be placed on the ECL or not, he had said earlier.

He said that a sub-committee of the cabinet would mull over the issue soon.

“The recommendations have been forwarded to the cabinet to share with members of sub-committee,” the minister added.

Meanwhile, Hussain Nawaz has said that his family no longer owns the properties mentioned in a recent report published by a British newspaper.

Last week, the Daily Mail published a report about Nawaz and his sons, referring to the Avenfield properties – on which one of the references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the Sharif family is based.

The report stated: “The family has made huge profits from other sites which have not figured in court – such as the swankiest address of all, at One Hyde Park Place, which Nawaz Sharif’s son Hasan sold for £43 million. Untangling the web of the Sharifs’ British real estate portfolio is not easy. The properties are registered via a bewildering network of companies, trusts and bank accounts.”

Published in Daily Times, June 27^th 2018.