ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday stopped

process to bring former finance minister Ishaq Dar back to Pakistan through

Interpol.

The step has been taken after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued stay

order against the accountability court’s decision pertaining to issuance of

non-bailable arrest warrants for Dar. The high court had barred

accountability court from proceedings against the accused till 17th

January, 2018.

Meanwhile, the NAB authorities have decided to challenge IHC’s order in the

court.

Ishaq Dar, 67, was indicted in October in a graft case in which he is

accused of making 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 Nawaz

Sharif as prime minister in the Panama Papers scandal.

In its case against Dar, the NAB has alleged that the accused has acquired

assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his own name and/or in the name

of his dependants of an approximate amount of Rs 831.678 million.

Dar is in London since October and has been seeking treatment of an

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