LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker in the National Assembly Chaudhry Muhammad Asharf was on Friday sent to jail on judicial remand. The anti-corruption establishment (ACE) presented him before the judicial magistrate’s court after two-day physical remand. Judicial Magistrate Kamran Zafar heard the case and approved a 14-day physical remand for the arrested after the anti-corruption watchdog had requested extension in his physical remand. Earlier, the ACE arrested the lawmaker for grabbing almost 157 acres of government land in his constituency NA-161 (Sahiwal). Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had condemned his arrest terming it “political victimization”. DNA
