Islamabad:
Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq
Dar today again appeared before an accountability court here
to face trial in a corruption case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered
three cases of corruption and money laundering against ousted
prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his family members and Finance
Minister Dar in the Islamabad Accountability Court.
The cases were registered weeks after the Supreme Court
disqualified Sharif as prime minister on July 28 in the Panama
Papers scandal.
Dar, 67, appeared in the court but his chief counsel
Khawaja Harris was not present due to some prior commitments.
The court was informed that Harris would come later in
the day. Judge Muhammad Bashir then postponed the hearing till
afternoon.
Meanwhile, the court also rejected an application by Dar
to exempt him from hearing today.
The prosecution is set to present another witness against
Dar. Earlier three witnesses have testified in the case,
including Al-Baraka Bank Senior Vice-President Tariq Javed and
Shahid Aziz of the National Investment Trust (NIT) asset
management company during the previous hearing on October 12.
Dar was indicted last month in the case in which he is
accused of making assets, which are not in accordance with his
known sources of income.
