An accountability court (AC) in Lahore on Saturday summoned former Punjab chief minister and PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on January 7 for indictment in the case of allegedly receiving kickbacks in development projects. In his written order, the judge said there were difficulties in marking the suspects in the case present since not all of them appeared in the court on the same date.

“The court does not want more delay in the case,” he wrote. At the previous hearing, the judge went on to say, he exempted Muhammad Khan Bhatti from appearance in the court on medical grounds. “Today, I have granted an exemption to Chaudhry Pervaiz for a day.” “Therefore today, the court indicts Muhammad Khan Bhatti, Khalid Mehmood Chattha, Asif Mehmood, Naeem Iqbal, Muhammad Asghar and Asad Ali,” wrote the judge.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)