ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court heard the case regarding freezing of BahriaTown Accounts.
SC has ordered the accounts of Bahria Town and the Malir DevelopmentAuthority to be unfrozen.
Government institutions often try to be over efficient, observed ChiefJustice Saqib Nisar during a hearing of Bahria Town’s appeal against thefreezing of its bank accounts on Friday.
They also froze the accounts in the school fees case, he remarked, addingthat the verdict was for all schools, not just 22 of them. We did not orderthe accounts to be frozen in that case, he clarified.
The top judge went on to say that the accounts were not frozen on thecourt’s directives in the fake accounts case either. We only ordered themonitoring of the accounts, he said.
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Lawyer Aitizaz Ahsan, who was representing Bahria Town, said the company’saccounts were not fake.
I can’t say anything about Malik Riaz, remarked Justice Nisar.
The court ordered all of Bahria Town’s accounts to be unfrozen. The topjudge reminded Bahria Town’s representatives that the court had directed itstop using ‘Bahria’ in its name in six months. That time has lapsed but thename is still there, he observed.
