Today’s outlook: Bilawal Zardari to meet Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari fails to appear in Karachi court
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These are just some of the developing stories we are expecting to follow today, Monday, in news from Pakistan.
- PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will meet former PM Nawaz Sharif at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail at 2pm. He was given the approval for the meeting by the interior ministry. The chairperson had sent a request to the Punjab home department seeking permission to visit Nawaz. The visit is to inquire about Nawaz’s health. PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira said that there is no political agenda behind the meeting. PTI’s Shahbaz Gul remarked that it is impossible that two political leaders don’t discuss politics. A meeting of the PPP’s parliamentary leaders was held in Lahore on Sunday. PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari attended the meeting too. He reached Lahore on Saturday night.
- Former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur submitted a petition in a Karachi banking court asking for exemption from the hearing. The PPP leaders were given interim bail till March 11 on March 5. They have filed a petition seeking an extension in the bail. NAB has submitted a petition to shift the case to Islamabad on the orders of the Supreme Court.
- An accountability court will indict former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and PTI’s Babar Awan in the Nandipur project reference. The reference says that the suspects delayed the Nandipur project that caused a loss of Rs27 billion to the national exchequer. Awan, who served as the federal minister for law and justice in the cabinet of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, said that two summaries were submitted to the law ministry for the project but he wasn’t the law minister then. On March 8, he withdrew a petition seeking his acquittal in the case.
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