Pak's anti-graft body gives nod for filling corruption case against Nawaz Sharif

Pakistan's anti-graft body has given the nod for filing a corruption case against ousted premier Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Javed Iqbal has approved registration of the corruption case during an executive board meeting. 

NAB officials said, the case was related to alleged loss of over 120 million rupees to the national exchequer over the construction of a two-way road in 2000 from Raiwind to the Sharif



family home in the suburbs of Lahore. The case also includes the name of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The Sharif brothers have so far not reacted to the new allegations of corruption. 

Nawaz Sharif, his sons Hassan and Hussain, daughter Maryam, her husband Muhammad Safdar, are already facing three NAB cases on the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Panama Papers case in July this year. The decision led to Sharif's ouster as premier.