Khursheed Shah’s condition deteriorates in NAB custody

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Shah’s health condition deteriorated on Thursday, in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau.

Shah, who was arrested a day earlier by NAB in a case pertaining to acquiring assets beyond means of income, was shifted to the Poly Clinic.

Earlier speaking to media, Shah said that he doesn’t own ‘an inch extra’ to the properties he has declared.

The PPP senior leader urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of the arrests under the NAB.

Khursheed Shah made properties under names of frontmen: NAB

According to a NAB notification, the senior PPP leader made properties under the names of his frontmen.

The notification said that Shah made the Taj Mahal hotel in Sukhur in the name of Ajaz Baloch, a petrol pump worth millions of rupees at Rohi road in the name of frontman Qasim Shah, and a palace-like house in Sukkur’s Professors Cooperative Housing Society. 

 The house in cooperative society was not built from the fund already declared by Shah, stated the notification. 

Court grants two-day transit remand of Khursheed Shah to NAB

Earlier today, an accountability court in Islamabad  granted the NAB two-day transit remand of Syed Khursheed Shah.

Shah was to be shifted to Sukkur for investigation.

The accountability watchdog's prosecutor had requested for three-day transit remand. 

"How much time will it take to fly to Sukkur," Judge Bashir asked during today's hearing. 

To this, the NAB investigating officer said they will take the PPP stalwart on the first available flight to Sukkur. 

The court then granted two-day transit remand of the PPP leader to NAB.

The PPP leader is accused of allotting to himself an amnesty plot illegally from a cooperative society in Sukkur.

The investigation has been ongoing since August 7 and it was alleged that the PPP leader built bungalows, petrol pumps, and hotels in the name of others (benamidaar).

NAB Sukkur had summoned Shah through a letter, however, the PPP leader wrote back to the authority, declining to appear before it.

On July 31, the NAB had given approval for an inquiry against the senior PPP leader.