*The Supreme Court (SC) issued on Wednesday notice to NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB) over former president Asif Ali Zardari’spetition to transfer his NAB graft cases from Islamabad to Karachi.*

During the hearing conducted by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, the SC heardZardari’s plea through counsel Farooq H Naek. Zardari’s counsel said thatit is a legal right to apply for transfer of case and that the legal rightcannot be revoked by court order.

The SC said that it will have to review the circumstances under which theSC ordered to file the reference in Islamabad’s accountability court.Referring to the SC’s January 7, 2019 judgment where the top court hadordered to transfer all cases related to fake accounts from Karachi toIslamabad, the court said that it can neither stop nor change the decisionof the court, *The Express Tribune*reported.

The SC inquired whether any reference was ever filed against the formerpresident in Islamabad before. Zardari’s counsel replied that referenceswere filed in Lahore and Rawalpindi, while one was also heard in AttockFort.

Issuing notices to NAB, Faryal Talpur and other respondents in the case,the SC has adjourned the hearing for a month.