<p>Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is set to undergo a heart procedure next week in London, has been summoned by Pakistan's anti-graft body to appear before it on March 31 for allegedly misusing his power in a land case when he was chief minister of Punjab province in 1986.</p>.<p>Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year for his treatment.</p>.<p>The higher court had allowed him to travel abroad for four months but the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government later did not allow extension to his stay and declared him an ‘absconder’.</p>.<p>The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has sent a questionnaire to the PML-N supreme leader in the land case involving Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rehman and summoned him to the bureau's office on Tuesday to record his statement.</p>.<p>Sharif's party,the PML-N, says the former premier is not well as he is undergoing treatment in London.</p>.<p>“Nawaz Sharif has to undergo a heart procedure next week as his condition is not well,” PML-N president and Sharif’s younger brother Shahbaz Sharif said.</p>.<p>In a statement, Shahbaz, who is also the Opposition leader in the National Assembly, termed the NAB’s case “frivolous” and asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to secure the bail of Shakilur Rrehman.</p>.<p>The NAB arrested Mir Shakilur Rehman on March 12 in a 34-year-old case related to 54-kanal land he allegedly acquired “illegally” in the tenure of the then chief minister of Punjab, Nawaz Sharif. He has been on physical remand till April 7.</p>.<p>Rehman says the property in question was bought from a private party and all evidence of this had been provided to the NAB, including the legal requirements fulfilled like duty and taxes. He has denied any wrongdoing in the case.</p>.<p>The NAB alleged that Rehman illegally obtained exemption of 54 plots each measuring one-kanal. It said the allotment of the land had been in connivance with then chief minister Nawaz Sharif (in 1986) against the exemption policy and the laws for monitory gains.</p>.<p>The three-time premier is undergoing treatment in London for coronary artery disease.</p>.<p>The Islamabad High Court also granted bail to Sharif in the Al Azizia Mills corruption case, in which the former prime minister was serving a seven-year jail term, clearing his way to travel abroad for medical treatment.</p>
<p>Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is set to undergo a heart procedure next week in London, has been summoned by Pakistan's anti-graft body to appear before it on March 31 for allegedly misusing his power in a land case when he was chief minister of Punjab province in 1986.</p>.<p>Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year for his treatment.</p>.<p>The higher court had allowed him to travel abroad for four months but the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government later did not allow extension to his stay and declared him an ‘absconder’.</p>.<p>The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has sent a questionnaire to the PML-N supreme leader in the land case involving Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rehman and summoned him to the bureau's office on Tuesday to record his statement.</p>.<p>Sharif's party,the PML-N, says the former premier is not well as he is undergoing treatment in London.</p>.<p>“Nawaz Sharif has to undergo a heart procedure next week as his condition is not well,” PML-N president and Sharif’s younger brother Shahbaz Sharif said.</p>.<p>In a statement, Shahbaz, who is also the Opposition leader in the National Assembly, termed the NAB’s case “frivolous” and asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to secure the bail of Shakilur Rrehman.</p>.<p>The NAB arrested Mir Shakilur Rehman on March 12 in a 34-year-old case related to 54-kanal land he allegedly acquired “illegally” in the tenure of the then chief minister of Punjab, Nawaz Sharif. He has been on physical remand till April 7.</p>.<p>Rehman says the property in question was bought from a private party and all evidence of this had been provided to the NAB, including the legal requirements fulfilled like duty and taxes. He has denied any wrongdoing in the case.</p>.<p>The NAB alleged that Rehman illegally obtained exemption of 54 plots each measuring one-kanal. It said the allotment of the land had been in connivance with then chief minister Nawaz Sharif (in 1986) against the exemption policy and the laws for monitory gains.</p>.<p>The three-time premier is undergoing treatment in London for coronary artery disease.</p>.<p>The Islamabad High Court also granted bail to Sharif in the Al Azizia Mills corruption case, in which the former prime minister was serving a seven-year jail term, clearing his way to travel abroad for medical treatment.</p>