National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to dismiss former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's application for grant of bail on medical grounds, said the sources. The NAB's reply on Nawaz Sharif application, expected to be filed on Monday (tomorrow), said the ex-PM could not be granted bail on medical ground as all the medical facilities were being provided to him. A division bench of IHC comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani will resume hearing on Nawaz Sharif's petition on February 12.
The IHC on February 6 had sought reply from National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Punjab government on the petition of Sharif seeking his release from jail on medical grounds. The former prime minister has sought suspension of seven-year sentence awarded to him by Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Arshad Malik in the Al-Azizia /Hill Metals Establishment case and his release on medical grounds.
The ex-PM's petition has refuted all the allegations levelled against him and taken a categorical stance that the prosecution has miserably failed to discharge the onus placed on it to prove any of the allegations contained in the charges framed against him. The petition said that Sharif felt pain in both of his arms and numbness of toes. Given his medical history, the matter was reported to the jail superintendent who referred him for medical examination to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, and the Allama Iqbal Medical College/Jinnah Hospital, Lahore.
It added that a special medical board was separately constituted to evaluate the health condition of the petitioner. Though the medical examination of the petitioner was conducted by each of the special medical boards on January 16 and a preliminary report, in the case of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, and a final report, in the case of the Allama Iqbal Medical College, was prepared on January 16 and 17, respectively, none of these reports, or the results of the lab tests on which the same are based, were shared by the respective board or their heads with the petitioner or his personal physician till January 22 while final report of PIC, Lahore, was made available on January 24.
He prayed to the court that during pendency of the appeal filed by him against the judgement dated December 24, 2018, this court may suspend the execution of the sentences passed against him and he be released on bail.
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