Islamabad: A Pakistan anti-corruption court hearing the Al-Qadir Trust case on Monday summoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on December 6 while issuing non-bailable arrest warrants against six other accused in the case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) last week filed a case against Khan and seven others, including his wife, in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. Judge Muhammad Bashir of the Islamabad-based Accountability Court No. 1 issued a written order about the production of the accused.
He noted that 71-year-old Khan was already in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi and ordered the jail superintendent to produce him at the next hearing on Wednesday. He also noted that Bibi had secured interim bail from the courts and directed that she be informed to appear at the next hearing.
The other six accused, including property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain and his son Ali Riaz, Farhat Shahzadi, a close friend of the spouse of the ex-prime minister, former special assistants to the premier Mirza Shahzad Akbar and Zulfi Bukhari, and lawyer Ziaul Mustafa Nasim were stated as at large and the court issued non-bailable arrest warrants against them.
The judge also said that the next hearing would be conducted at Adiala jail as per a notification issued by the law ministry on November 14. According to the charges, Khan and Bibi obtained billions of rupees and land worth dozens of acres from Bahria Town Ltd of Malik Riaz Hussain for legalising Rs50 billion that was returned to the country by the UK.
