ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has come out with a request to adjourn the proceedings of the Hudaibiya Papers Mills Case in Supreme Court till the time its new prosecutor general is appointed.

A three-judge SC bench comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel will take up the case on Monday.

The office of the NAB prosecutor general has been vacant since the retirement of Waqas Qadeer Dar in November.

In a set of documents which NAB submitted to the apex court on Saturday, the bureau also urged the court to consider adjourning the matter, instead of hearing the same on Monday.

Since the appeal for opening the Hudaibya reference is of extreme significance, NAB argued that it would be better if the same be pleaded through the prosecutor general office. It stated that a summary to this effect was already pending approval from the presidency.

At the last hearing on Nov 28, NAB prosecutor Imranul Haq argued the bureau’s appeal before the bench, but he had no answers to a number of queries raised by the court. He did not even have the copy of the actual reference No.5 of 2000, commonly known as Hudaibya reference, saying that it was not relevant.