Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday again appeared before an accountability court here to face trial in a corruption case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered three cases of corruption and money-laundering against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his family members and Mr. Dar in the Islamabad Accountability Court.
The cases were registered weeks after the Supreme Court disqualified Mr. Sharif as prime minister on July 28 in the Panama Papers scandal. Mr. Dar (67) appeared in the court but his chief counsel Khawaja Harris was not present due to some prior commitments.
The court was informed that Mr. Harris would come later in the day. Judge Muhammad Bashir then postponed the hearing till afternoon.
Application rejected
Meanwhile, the court also rejected an application by Mr. Dar to exempt him from Monday’s hearing.
The prosecution is set to present another witness against Mr. Dar. Earlier three witnesses have testified in the case, including Al-Baraka Bank Senior vice-president Tariq Javed and Shahid Aziz of the National Investment Trust (NIT) asset management company during the previous hearing on October 12.
Mr. Dar was indicted last month in the case in which he is accused of making assets, which are not in accordance with his known sources of income.
