LHC issues notice to NAB on Mir Shakil's bail plea.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on post-arrest bail petition by Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman in a 34-year-old case of 54-kanal land allegedly allotted to him by then Punjab chief minister Nawaz Sharif.

At the outset of the hearing, Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem, head of a two-judge bench, asked the counsel for the petitioner if there was any fresh ground taken in the petition for release on bail.

The bench had dismissed two identical petitions against the arrest and for release of Mr Rehman on bail when he was on physical remand with the NAB.

Advocate Amjad Pervez, the counsel, responded to the judge's query saying the petitioner was no more in the bureau's custody and on judicial remand. He said there was no justification to keep the petitioner behind the bars any more. The counsel further said there was nothing to be recovered from the petitioner.

To another query by the bench, he said then chief minister Nawaz Sharif, also a suspect in the inquiry, had...

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