LHC issues notice to NAB as Hamza Shahbaz seeks bail in sugar mills case.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday adjourned hearing of the bail petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President and Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz Sharif till January 13.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi took up the petition in which the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman justice (retd) Javed Iqbal and NAB Lahore Director General Shahzad Saleem have been made respondents.

The bench remarked that Hamza had expressed lack of confidence in the bench for a pre-arrest bail.

To this, Hamza's defense counsel Advocate Amjad Pervez said that his client had given him directives and they have full confidence in the bench.

On Tuesday Amjad Pervez filed a petition in the court on behalf of Hamza seeking his bail in the Ramzan Sugar Mills...

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