Lahore court indicts Jang editor, 2 others in land allotment case.

An accountability court in Lahore on Thursday indicted Jang Editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rahman and two others in a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference pertaining to a 34-year-old 'illegal land allotment' in his favour, that was allegedly manipulated by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Accountability court Judge Asad Ali presided over the hearing in which two other accused in the reference were also present in the court, former director general of Lahore Development Authority Humayon Faiz Rasool and its former director of land development department Mian Bashir Ahmad.

All three accused pleaded not guilty to the charges after which the court ordered NAB to summon its witnesses to record their statements at the next hearing on February 16.

Rahman was arrested in March 2020 by NAB after he had failed to satisfy their answers in a hearing regarding the case.

The NAB land allotment reference had alleged that Rahman had illegally obtained exemption of 54...