<span style="color: #222222;">Pakistan's Supreme Court today adjourned till March 26 the verdict on jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's application seeking bail on medical grounds.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Sharif filed an appeal on March 6 against a judgment by the Islamabad High Court&nbsp; which on February 25 rejected his bail application in the Al-Azizia steel mills corruption case for owning a steel factory abroad without disclosing its ownership.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''During the hearing today, a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa issued a notice to National Accountability Bureau to submit a reply in the matter in the next hearing fixed for March 26.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The apex court will announce the judgment on the same day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Defence counsel Khawaja Haris presented arguments in the case and cited medical reports. He claimed that the three-time premier is taking 17 different medications.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Sharif, 69, is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore since December 2018.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo has suffered four angina attacks last week, according to his daughter Maryam Nawaz .</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''The Sharif family is complaining that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is not providing health facilities to the former premier who has serious health complications.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Three corruption cases – Avenfield properties, Flagship investment and Al-Azizia steel mills – were registered against the Sharif family by the anti-graft body in 2017 following a judgment by the Supreme Court that disqualified Sharif in the Panama Papers case in 2017.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Avenfiled corruption case in July 2018 which was related to his properties in London. Later he was given bail in September.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In December, the accountability court convicted him in the Al-Azizia graft case but acquitted him in the Flagship corruption case.</span><br />'' &nbsp;<br />
News On AIR | March 19, 2019 9:19 PM
Hearing on Nawaz Sharif's bail plea adjourned till March 26