<br/>Pakistan's anti-graft body has given the nod for launching a corruption case against ousted premier Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif. National Accountability Bureau chairman Javed Iqbal has approved registration of the corruption case during an executive board meeting. <br/><br/>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 Jati Umra in the suburbs of Lahore. The Sharif brothers have so far not reacted to the new allegations of corruption.<br/><br/>'Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam, son-in-law Muhammad<br/>Safdar, and sons Hassan and Hussain, are already facing three<br/>NAB cases filed in September on the basis of the Supreme Court's decision of July 28 in the Panama Papers case that led to Sharif's ouster as premier.<br/>'However, the new case also includes Pakistani Punjab Chief Minister<br/>Shahbaz Sharif.<br/>
News On AIR | December 29, 2017 2:58 AM
Pakistan's anti-graft body gives nod for corruption case against Nawaz Sharif & Shahbaz Sharif