Court blocks graft suspect’s arrest

A Pakistani court has blocked the arrest of a high-profile graft suspect by granting him protective bail, following an attempted house raid by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog to take him into custody.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has an arrest warrant for Hamza Shehbaz, who is the son of opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif and nephew of ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

It wants to arrest Shehbaz in cases related to money laundering and possession of assets beyond his means. Its officials reached the Sharif family home in Lahore on Saturday at around 11 am, but they were stopped from entering by guards and political loyalists