F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court on Tuesday hearing the corruption reference against Senator Ishaq Dar rejected the petition of the co-accused to cancel their impending indictment and ordered the framing of charges on March 27.
Accountability court Judge Mohammad Bashir, had on March 5 ordered to indict National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) President Saeed Ahmed, Naeem Mehmood and Mansoor Rizvi on March 12.
All the three have been accused in the supplementary reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the PML-N leader, who has been absconding in the case since October last year.
Two of the three accused later petitioned the court against their planned indictment. Moreover, the NBP president also challenged his nomination as an accused and pleaded the court to dismiss it for lack of evidence.
Hearing the case today, the court rejected the petitions of the co-accused and ruled that they be indicted on March 27.
The counsel of the accused said after the order that they will challenge the decision in a high court once the detailed judgment is released.
Ishaq Dar, a close aide of Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif, is facing the case of possessing assets disproportionate to his declared sources of income.
NAB filed an interim reference against Dar in September last year in light of the Supreme Court’s July 28, 2017, verdict in the Panama Papers case.
The three accused in the supplementary reference are identified as directors of Dar’s companies.
