ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Monday reserved its judgement on the Nandipur Power Project corruption reference till February 20. During the hearing, former adviser to Prime Minister Imran Khan on parliamentary affairs, Babar Awan completed arguments for his acquittal in the reference while the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor also presented his stance. Earlier, the accountability court had directed Babar Awan and former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to submit bail bonds worth Rs 0.2m each. Soon after the reference was filed, Babar Awan had resigned from the post of PM’s adviser and said that he had resigned to prove that the allegations against him were baseless. Furthermore, the Ministry of Water and Power also failed to take concrete steps to resolve the issue, and the matter remained pending.

Source: Pakistan Today February 11, 2019 08:48 UTC