Ishaq Dar remains absent from hearing of assets reference today
The accountability court may issue bailable arrest warrants against the finance minister today.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday (today) did not appear before the accountability court for the hearing of graft reference that has been filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as he is not present in the country.
Dar’s lawyer told the court that his client left for London on emergency basis as he was not feeling well, and requested the court to grant him exemption from hearing. The accountability court, however, may issue bailable arrest warrants against the finance minister.
Let it be known that the arrest warrants against Ishaq Dar have already been issued once in the case, and it was the eighth time today that he was summoned by the court.
On the other hand, NAB witness and private bank officer Abdur Rehman Gondal has presented the bank transaction record of Dar in the court which consists of two bags.
The court has directed Ishaq Dar’s counsel to carefully examine the bank transaction record so that it may not be needed in future. The lawyer will also submit reply on NAB report regarding the freezing of Dar’s assets and will argue on the report as well.
It is worth mentioning here that NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal had frozen Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s assets, and the report had been submitted in the accountability court during the previous hearing.
It had been stated in the NAB report that all moveable as well as immoveable assets of the finance minister have been frozen.
