KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday granted seven-day protective bail to the former finance minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail, a day after National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) scam. Earlier in the day, Ismail submitted a bail application at the SHC seeking protective bail. The former minister maintained that the case was based in Islamabad and requested protective bail so that he could contact the relevant court. While accepting his application for bail, the SHC also asked the PML-N stalwart to submit surety of Rs500,000. Ismail further asserted that whenever the corruption watchdog had summoned him, he had “appeared before it”.

Source: Pakistan Today July 19, 2019 05:15 UTC