Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to resign
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ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is in serious trouble after the Accountability Bureau Court issued his arrest warrants after his failure to appear before the court.
Ishaq Dar will resign if the court rejects his pre-arrest bail petition, sources told Geo News.
An accountability court hearing a corruption reference against Dar issued bailable warrants of arrest after he failed to appear in court.
Dar had been summoned to appear in court today in connection with a reference by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for possessing assets beyond declared sources of income. The reference had been ordered by the Supreme Court in its July 28 judgment in the Panama Papers case.
As the hearing began in Judge Mohammad Bashir's court, Dar's protocol officer Fazal Dad appeared in court and informed the judge that the minister is presently in London.
The NAB prosecutor pleaded the court to issue arrest warrants to ensure Dar's presence in court. Following this, the court went into a recess to decide on the bureau's plea and returned with the directions of ordering bailable warrants of arrest for the finance minister.
