An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday reserved its ruling on assets beyond means reference against former finance minister Ishaq Dar. The accountability court Islamabad held hearing on a reference against Ishaq Dar for possessing assets beyond his know sources of income wherein NAB prosecutor and Dar’s counsel Qazi Misbah appeared before court and advanced his final arguments. Upon completion of arguments, the court reserved its judgement on the reference. Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir will announce his ruling on October 21. Earlier, the court had consigned the reference to the record.

Earlier, a citizen had filed a review petition against the Supreme Court's (SC) decision to void amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999. Petitioner Abdul Jabbar, through his counsel, senior lawyer and PPP Senator Farooq H Naek on Friday prayed the SC to “set aside its September 15 verdict.” He argued that he was not a party to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman's constitutional petition challenging amendments to the NAB law, but stands aggrieved by the verdict - refering particularly to the minimum pecuniary threshold of NAB which parliament set at Rs500 million. The petitioner submitted that an accountability court sent a reference against him to anti-corruption court after NAB law amendment.

 
Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)