A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Chief Justice Mohammad Ameer Bhatti will hear a petition today (Monday) of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz, seeking the recovery of her passport, which she had surrendered to the court for bail in a case.
Maryam originally submitted an appeal on April 21 in the Lahore High Court that she wished to perform Umrah and visit London to tend to her ailing father Nawaz Sharif later she had withdrawn her application.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has built a politically motivated case against Maryam on false allegations, she maintained in the application.
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In the past four years, no sugar mills reference registered against her, the petition said adding that a person cannot be deprived of their fundamental rights for a long period of time.
During the previous hearing, the NAB had told the LHC that it has no objection to the courting returning the passport of Maryam Nawaz.
Maryam Nawaz had surrendered her passport in the LHC to secure bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.