ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday ended the stayorder on the accountability court proceedings against Senator Ishaq Dar.
While hearing Dar’s plea, a two-member division bench of the IHC comprisingJustice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb directed theaccused to appear in the accountability court.
The short order was issued a day after the National Accountability Bureau(NAB) submitted its response to the IHC and stated that a proclaimedoffender has to present himself before the court to seek exemption fromappearance. The NAB had also asked the court to allow the resumption ofcorruption proceedings against the former finance minister.——————————
Earlier in December, the anti-corruption court declared Ishaq Dar,currently seeking medical treatment in London, an “absconder” after herepeatedly failed to appear before it in a graft case linking to the PanamaPapers scandal.
Dar, 67, was indicted in October in a graft case in which he is accused ofmaking assets that were “disproportionate to his known sources of income”.
The case was filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)in the light of the Supreme Court order of July 28 that disqualified NawazSharif as prime minister in the Panama Papers scandal.
In its case against Dar, the NAB has alleged that the accused has acquiredassets and pecuniary interests/resources in his own name and/or in the nameof his dependants of an approximate amount of Rs 831.678 million.
Dar is in London since October and has been seeking treatment of anundefined heart complication at a Harley Street hospital.