ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said if Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif was a common man, his bail would have been revoked by now as he was patrolling in Islamabad, instead of appearing in the court.

“Shehbaz Sharif is wanted by the court in corruption cases and his bail application is also in the court,” he said adding that “we cannot become a nation until law is equally applicable on the rich and poor.”

شہبازشریف عدالت کو بدعنوانی کے مقدموں میں مطلوب ہیں ان کی ضمانت کی درخواست عدالت میں ہےلیکن وہ وہاں پیش ہونے کی بجائے اسلام آباد میں مٹر گشت کر رہے ہیں اگر یہ کوئ عام آدمی ہوتا اب تک ضمانت منسوخ ہو چکی ہوتی جب تک قانون کا اطلاق امیر اور غریب پر برابر نہیں ہوتا ہم قوم نہیں بن سکتے

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) April 4, 2022

The defence had on March 22 completed cross-examination of two prosecution witnesses in a reference of money laundering and illegal assets against Shehbaz and his family.

Shehbaz did not appear before an accountability court as the defence counsel had said the PML-N leader was in Islamabad because of a no-confidence motion filed against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly.

Read more: Shehbaz’s money laundering case: Cross-examination of two prosecution witnesses completed

Presiding Judge Naseem Ahmad had expressed dismay over the absence of Shehbaz, however, allowed the application.

Later, the counsel had cross-examined two officials of the SECP as prosecution witnesses.

The judge had adjourned the hearing till April 4 and directed the prosecution to produce more witnesses for the cross-examination.

In this reference, the NAB had alleged that the family members and benamidars of Shehbaz had received fake foreign remittances of billions in their personal bank accounts. In addition to these remittances, the bureau had said, billions of rupees were laundered by way of foreign pay orders, which were deposited in personal bank accounts of his sons Hamza and Suleman.