Hamza urges SC to defer case hearing as counsel unable to appear.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PM-N) leader Hamza Shahbaz Sharif Wednesday requested the Supreme Court to defer hearing of his case as his lawyer is unable to appear before it on Thursday.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam will conduct hearing of the NAB appeal against Lahore High Court's verdict wherein it had granted bail to Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif in the Ramzan Sugar Mills scam.

Chaudhry Akhtar Ali, Advocate on Record, submitted the application on behalf of the PML-N leader stating that the petitioner's counsel Amjad Pervez is indisposed, therefore, he is unable to travel from Lahore to Islamabad to appear before the apex court and requested to adjourn the case.

It was March 21 when the NAB had approached the Supreme Court to cancel the bail of Hamza Shahbaz.

The NAB submitted that the division bench of the LHC has fallen an error by not considering the cardinal principles of criminal...