ISLAMABAD – Former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Interior Minister AhsanIqbal face a blow from the National Accountability Bureau.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to approach theSupreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) verdict of grantingpost-arrest bail to PML-N leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal.
The decision was made during a high-level meeting presided over by NABchief Justice retired Javed Iqbal at the bureau’s Islamabad headquarters.
The anti-graft watchdog’s deputy chairman, the prosecutor general and theNAB Operations director general were in attendance in the meeting.
The meeting decided to move the Supreme Court against the IHC’s ruling ofgranting bail to the PML-N leaders.
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Earlier today, a two-member bench of the IHC headed by Justice AtharMinallah approved the bail for former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in theLNG case. The bench ordered the former minister to submit a Rs10 millionsurety bond to secure the bail.
The PML-N leader earlier this month filed a post-arrest bail petition inIslamabad High Court.
