Islamabad, July 01: The Lahore High Court has deputed a bailiff to recover and produce before it today the family members of deposed premier Nawaz Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, as police conducted raids in Lahore to search three women members of the family which the government wants deported to Jeddah. Acting on a petition filed by Sharif's lawyer Ashtar Ausaf Ali alleging that the police had laid siege to their home, Justice Raja Muhammad Sabir yesterday appointed a bailiff to raid the Sharif's model town residence in Lahore to recover Nusrat Shahbaz and her children Hamza, Salman, Jawaria and Rabia and produce them before the court. The court passed the orders after advocate-general of Punjab Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi stated that the court may resort to the appointment of bailiff if the petitioners insists that Shahbaz's family members were illegally detained in their house. Police teams, meanwhile, conducted raids to trace the wife and daughters of Shahbaz who have been ordered by the government to leave Pakistan and join their exiled family in Jeddah. "The police used massive force in the post midnight raid. They searched every nook and corner of our house and harassed our ladies," Salman Shahbaz, the younger son of Shahbaz was quoted as saying by daily 'Dawn'.


The whereabouts of the three are not known after the authorities tried to forcibly deport them last week.


Police also briefly held Sahbaz's son Hamza and his relatives to pressure them to hand over the three. However, reports from Lahore said police lifted the siege after they agreed to leave voluntarily.

Bureau Report