Summary The Supreme Court will resume hearing of rental power projects case today.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials are to appear before the Supreme Court today (Thursday) over orders to arrest the prime minister and 15 other people on accusations of graft in 2010.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had ordered that all those accused of graft in power generation projects be arrested and for the chairman of the anti-corruption National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to report to the court.
"The NAB chairman is going to appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow," NAB lawyer Aamir Abbas told AFP late on Wednesday.
Asked if any arrests were made so far, as ordered by the court, Abbas replied: "I am not aware about arrests."
Commentators doubt that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will be detained imminently given that the case has already been running for years.
Lawyers say that even if he is arrested for questioning over the allegations, which date back to his time as water and power minister, he can remain in office unless and until he is convicted.
