(Karachi) An Accountability Court sought arguments on a plea submitted by Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif and members of his family seeking to unfreeze their assets.

Accountability Court Judge Jawadul Hassan directed the Shehbaz Sharif's counsel to forward final arguments in the case on next hearing. The court put off the case until November 7.

The PML-N president stated in his plea that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) froze his family’s properties without taking into consideration the actual facts as assets can not be frozen at a time when the investigation process is still underway.

He requested the court to review its verdict of allowing NAB to freeze the assets.

Earlier in December 2019, NAB Lahore froze 23 properties of Shehbaz, his sons and other family members in the income beyond means and money laundering case under Section 12 of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.

The frozen properties include two houses in Model Town and Nishat Lodges in Dounga Gali, Murree which were acquired by Shehbaz in the name of his wife Nusrat Shehbaz.

A cottage, a villa and a plot in Haripur and two houses in Defence Lahore were acquired by Shehbaz in the name of his other wife, Tehmina Durrani.

A land measuring over 390 kanal in Chiniot is in the name of Hamza Shehbaz and Suleman Shehbaz. Nine plots measuring five marla each in Jauhar Town and an over five-kanal house in Judicial Colony Lahore are in Hamza’s name.