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The NAB has prepared a charge sheet against Shehbaz Sharif in Rs14b Ashiana Housing Scheme scandal. He will be charge sheeted today (Saturday) during the preliminary hearing in accountability court. According to the charge sheet Shehbaz has been accused of alleged Rs5b corruption in the purchase of land for Ashiana Housing Scheme.Rs3b were obtained from banks as development fund. Shehbaz extorted Rs850m, while the projected development scheme was illegally awarded to a private company, and embezzled billions of rupees. Copy of the charge sheet obtained from sources reads that huge amounts were extorted from poor people under the guise of allotment of plots, but were notgiven allotment letter. Shahbaz started the housing scheme in six cities of Punjab – Lahore, Chiniot, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Kasur and Sargodha – land worth billions of rupees was purchased and large amounts were embezzled. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday arrested Pakistan Mus...

A saying behind every successful Man there is a woman, I think behind successful Nawaz Sharif the women is Kalsoom Nawaz. Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was born in 1950. She was the granddaughter of the world-renowned weight-lifter Ghulam Muhammad, known locally as ‘Gaama Pahelwan.’ ISLAMABAD-Nawaz received her early education from Lahore’s Madrasa-Tul-Banat and later enrolled at the Lady Griffin High School. For her undergraduate, she attended the Former Christian College in Lahore, and then completed a masters at the Punjab University. She was still studying when she married Nawaz Sharif, the son of a businessman, in 1971. Her husband entered politics in the 1980s and went on to launch his own party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Through its platform, he was elected the prime minister of Pakistan three times and Kulsoom Nawaz had the honour of serving as the first lady thrice When military dictator Pervez Musharraf staged a ...