Pakistan, Jan. 16 -- The Supreme Court was on Tuesday informed that then chief minister of Punjab Nawaz Sharif ordered illegal transfer of land of the Pakpattan shrine in 1985, a private TV channel reported.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard a case pertaining to the transfer of 14,000 kanals of land of the Pakpattan shrine to Dewan Ghulam Qutab in 1985. Nawaz was chief minister of Punjab province when the land in question was transferred.

As the hearing started, Dr Hussain Asghar, the head of the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe to the case, submitted an inquiry report, which stated that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was chief minister of Punjab province at that time, had illegally transferre...