LAHORE, Pakistan: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has been arrested after she refused to appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Case.
Maryam Nawaz was taken into custody when she went to Kot Lakhpat Jail on Thursday to meet her imprisoned father, the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
#NAB vehicles shifting @MaryamNSharif to #NAB Lahore from #KotLakhpat jail from where she was arrested. She was there to meet her father who is already in jail. #Maryam pic.twitter.com/qefSAQUmqS
— Azaz Syed (@AzazSyed) August 8, 2019
As per sources, Maryam Nawaz had been given a questionnaire by NAB based on six questions in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Case, which she was due to answer by 3:00 pm today. However she refused to answer any of the questions.
It’s the second time that Maryam Nawaz was arrested. Earlier she was apprehended and jailed following being awarded a 10-year imprisonment on June 6, 2018 by the Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir in Avenfield Reference.
However, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on September 19 suspended her conviction.
پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کے چیئرمین نے مریم نواز کی گرفتاری پر ایوان سے واک آؤٹ کردیا، واک آؤٹ کرتے ہوئے بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا ہے کہ ہم نے آمر ضیاء کو دیکھا تھا جو سیاسی مخالفین کی عورتوں کے پیچھے پڑجاتا تھا اور نئے آمرانہ پاکستان میں ہم یہ پھر دیکھ رہے ہیں pic.twitter.com/CMUlIUwsWo
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) August 8, 2019
Nawaz Sharif’s nephew Yousaf Abbas also arrested
Separately, the NAB also arrested Yousaf Abbas, the nephew of Nawaz Sharif, in the same case.
Both Maryam Nawaz and Yousaf Abbas will be produced before the Accountability Court tomorrow.
