PML-N leaders Sanaullah, Miftah out on bail

By News Desk

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Rana Sanaullah and Miftah Ismail were released on bail on Thursday after they submitted surety bonds in their respective cases. The former is facing drug trafficking case and the latter a corruption scandal.

Sanaullah, a member of the National Assembly, submitted two bonds worth Rs1 million each as per the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) orders.

Meanwhile, the court on Thursday issued the detailed verdict on the bail granted to Sanaullah in drug trafficking case.

In the judgement, the court questioned why the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) never sought the PML-N leader’s physical remand to investigate allegations against him even though the former provincial minister was accused of operating a narcotics trafficking network.

On Tuesday, the LHC had granted bail to former Punjab law minister Sanaullah in the narcotics case lodged after the ANF allegedly recovered 15kg heroin from his vehicle.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, in a statement, said an appeal would be filed by the ANF in the Supreme Court against Sanaullah’s bail.

Another PML-N leader Miftah Ismail was released from Adiala Jail on bail on Thursday after issuance of his release order by an accountability court in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) scandal after his lawyer submitted Rs10 million surety bond in the court.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) had granted post-arrest bail to Ismail in the case on December 23. A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Mian Gul Hassan approved the bail for the PML-N leader.