Jang Group editor, two others indicted in land case.

LAHORE -- An accountability court on Thursday indicted Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman and two others in a reference pertaining to a 34-year-old 'illegal' land allotment in his favour, allegedly manipulated by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

All the suspects, including former director general of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Humayon Faiz Rasool and its former director of land development department Mian Bashir Ahmad pleaded not guilty and decided to contest the trial.At this, Presiding Judge Asad Ali directed the prosecution to present its witnesses on the next hearing on Feb 16, so the trial proceedings could be started formally.

In this case, former premier Nawaz Sharif had already been declared an absconder for not joining the proceedings pending before the court.

On a last hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had submitted a report in the court about the...

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