PTI can't become party to 2019 Nawaz bail grant case: LHC.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court on Thursday ruled that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had no locus standi to become a party to a matter of allowing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to go abroad for medical treatment.

PTI senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry filed a petition to become a party to the bail granting order of Nawaz Sharif in 2019.

A counsel for the petitioner argued that Nawaz Sharif was allowed to travel abroad in light of an undertaking given by his brother Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on a stamp paper of Rs50.

He said the former prime minister had not returned to the court so far despite the lapse of four years.

Judge asks why the party didn't agitate the matter when it was in power

Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, who was heading a division bench, observed that the PTI did not agitate the matter when it was in the government and now it wanted the court to take an action.

The judge observed that the federal government and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) were party to the case, therefore, a political party had no locus standi to become a part to the proceedings.

Fawad Chaudhry said the Sharifs had committed a fraud with the court.

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