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By Sajjad Hussain Islamabad, July 21 (PTI) The Pakistani-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) of fallen Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif suffered a blow when one of his main candidates in the July 25 legislative elections was sentenced to life imprisonment The Rawalpindi court ordered the life imprisonment of PML-N leader, Hanif Abbasi, who was sentenced for misuse of ephedrine.
Abbasi, considered very close to Sharif, disputed the elections against the leader of the Muslim Awami League, Sheikh Rashid of Rawalpindi
The leader of the PML-N will not be able to contest the next general elections following the decision from the narcotics court. The court, which announced its decision after six years, acquitted seven other defendants in the case while giving them the benefit of the doubt.
The case of ephedrine surfaced in March 2011 when then Federal Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin at the National Assembly announced that the government would investigate the award of 9,000 kg ephedrine to pharmaceutical companies
The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) registered a complaint in June 2012 against nine suspects, including Abbasi.
Abbasi He was accused of abusing 500 kilograms of controlled chemical ephedrine that he had obtained for his company, Gray Pharmaceutical, in 2010.
He allegedly sold the product to smugglers instead of using it as medicine
Former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Ali Musa Gilani and the former Minister of Health Makhdoom Shahabuddin
Abbasi was arrested from the court and should be taken to Adiala Prison where his leader Sharif is already imprisoned.
furthermore vitiate the atmosphere of elections which is already very busy due to the imprisonment of Sharif and his daughter in a corruption case. PTI SH PMS
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