ISLAMABAD:
An accountability court docket has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari and 18 others within the Park Lane reference relating to pretend accounts on the following listening to.
Choose Muhammad Bashir heard the Park Lane reference.
NAB prosecutor and lawyer Arshad Tabraiz appeared within the court docket. Tabreez stated that Zardari was not the director of Park Lane when the settlement was signed.
The court docket summoned all 19 accused, together with Zardari, Muhammad Iqbal, Yunus Qadwai, Iqbal Khan Noori, Hussain Lawai, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Khawaja Anwar Majeed and M Farooq Abdullah, and adjourned the listening to until Dec 20.
In the meantime, the accountability court docket once more summoned all of the accused, together with former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, on Dec 14, within the rental energy initiatives reference filed by the Nationwide Accountability Bureau. Choose Bashir, who heard the case, requested that why the defence legal professionals weren’t giving arguments over acquittal pleas of their purchasers.
Defence lawyer Tabraiz stated that the purposes have been filed below Part 265D of the NAB regulation. “They don’t seem to be giving arguments as a result of the Supreme Courtroom has barred the accountability courts to take a ultimate choice on the references,” he added.
The court docket then summoned the absent accused once more on Dec 14 and adjourned the case.