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Summons: LHC leads NAB to record respond on ex-PM’s petition
- Updated: August 22, 2016
Previously, a LHC had incited down Ashraf’s ask to set aside summons released by a NAB.
PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday destined a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to contention a created respond about a information it had sought from former primary apportion Raja Pervez Ashraf for purported irregularities in appointments in Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco).
A multiplication bench, headed by Justice Abdul Sami Khan, upheld a sequence on a petition filed by Ashraf. During a hearing, Iftikhar Shahid seemed on interest of a postulant and pronounced that a NAB was arising visit notices to his client. “This is opposite staid principles. If a NAB need any information, it should have sensitive my customer in essay that what information it requires,” he said.
NAB special prosecutor Zahid Minhas pronounced that a information a business indispensable had been clearly mentioned in a notice. He also constructed a duplicate of a notice. However, a dais asked a prosecutor to contention a minute created reply. The justice afterwards put off serve conference until Sep 6.
Previously, a LHC had incited down Ashraf’s ask to set aside summons released by a NAB. The justice had however destined a NAB not to take any bootleg movement opposite him.
The decider had remarked that a NAB can't be stopped from probing into a issue.
Through Advocate Iftikhar Shahid, Ashraf had sensitive a justice that a NAB had released summons for him in tie with an exploration into fraudulent recruitments in a Pepco and a Gepco. He settled that a NAB movement amounted to domestic victimisation during a insistence of a statute party.
He pronounced that he had not shabby any appointments. “The NAB has been personification in a hands of a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership. It is subjecting Pakistan Peoples Party leaders to domestic victimisation,” he said.
Ashraf pronounced that he had asked a NAB to allow sum of a allegations opposite him. “However, a business keeps arising me summons but disclosing any reason,” he said. The former primary apportion pleaded that he was being dragged into a liaison over groundless allegations. He had requested a justice to set aside a notices/summons released by a NAB for being illegal.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 23rd, 2016.