ISLAMABAD: The counsel of former finance minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the accountability court’s issuance of non-bailable arrest warrants for his client. The petition, filed by Dar’s lawyer Qausain Faisal Mufti in the IHC, also challenged the accountability court’s declaring the “one-leave” minister an absconder in the case. The petition asked the IHC to allow someone else to represent the former finance minister in court so the accountability trial against him could proceed. The accountability court judge, investigation officer and National Accountability Bureau Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal have been made respondents in the petition. Non-bailable arrest warrants were issued for Dar on Nov 14.

Source: Pakistan Today December 02, 2017 13:41 UTC