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April 15, 2021
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday granted post-arrest bail to Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif in a money-laundering reference filed against his family by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). A two-judge bench headed by Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar allowed the bail petition of Shahbaz after NAB Special Prosecutor Faisal Raza Bokhari concluded his arguments. The bench observed that the trial proceedings, as per a report submitted to the Supreme Court by the relevant accountability court, would take at least one year to be concluded. It observed that the trial court has been still awaiting a new incumbent since the transfer of its presiding judge.