MQM leader Babar Ghauri likely to be arrested
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KARACHI - MQM leader Babur Ghauri is likely to be arrested as the accountability court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against him.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Babar Ghauri is wanted in a reference pertaining to Rs2.8 billion corruption in the Karachi Port Trust (KPT).
NAB has alleged in the reference’ filed on the Sindh High Court’s orders’ that eight men, including Ghouri, in connivance with each other had illegally regularised 940 employees of KPT, causing Rs2.8bn loss to the national exchequer.
The court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Ghauri and adjourned hearing till October 17.
NAB had first taken this case to the SHC which had directed that a reference on the matter be filed in the accountability court by August 8.
