LAHORE    -   The National Accountability Bu­reau (NAB) has informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that it does not re­quire passport of the Pakistan Mus­lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice Pres­ident Maryam Nawaz. The statement was made in a reply filed by the bureau to an ap­plication filed by Maryam Nawaz for return of her passport, which was surrendered to the LHC depu­ty registrar (judicial) after she got bail in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. The NAB further stated in its reply, that it was a matter of enforcement of fundamental rights and as per judgments of the Supreme Court, the registration of a criminal case could not deprive citizens from exercising the fundamental rights. The LHC had issued notices and sought reply from the NAB on Maryam Nawaz’s application for return of her passport, on last hearing, September 14 A three-member LHC bench headed by LHC Chief Jus­tice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti on Tuesday heard the civil miscellenous application filed by Maryam Nawaz for return of her passport, in a pending petition.