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Pakistan: On Monday, A Pakistani accountabilit sent former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 days of judicial remand in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. Judge Muhammad Bashir of the Islamabad Accountability Court presided over the hearing of the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case held at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, where Khan is currently jailed.
The court had rejected the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) plea for an extension of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman’s physical remand. The 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party chief has been incarcerated in the high-security jail in Rawalpindi since September 26 in various cases.
Khan, the primary accused and his wife Bushra Bibi, 49, were present during the hearing held at the high-security jail. The development came after an NAB team visited the former PM in the Adiala Jail, where the hearing took place, and interrogated him for around two hours in connection with the corruption case, reported.
Judge Bashir rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) request for extending the former premier’s physical remand in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. Imran was arrested again by the NAB on November 14 in the Al-Qadir Trust case and was handed over to the watchdog on physical remand. His wife Bushra Bibi and his legal team appeared before the court on Monday during the hearing.
Imran’s lawyer Sardar Latif Khosa said physical remand in the case was unnecessary and accused NAB of indulging in ‘political engineering and political vendetta’. He also said that the government repeatedly manipulated surveillance to its advantage. The Al-Qadir Trust case pertains to Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, who allegedly received billions of dollars and a large amount of land from Bahria Town Limited to launder Rs 50 billion which was acquired by a UK citizen during the PTI government. Identified and returned to the country. The PTI chairman was arrested from the premises of the Islamabad High Court in the case earlier this year, but was released after the Supreme Court declared the arrest illegal.
However, he was ‘arrested’ again during his imprisonment by NAB in the Al-Qadir case.Former Home Minister Rana Sanaullah had accused the former PM and Bibi of taking Rs 5 billion and hundreds of kanals of land to save the real estate firm in a money laundering case. Meanwhile, Imran is also accused of misleading the federal cabinet by hiding facts related to the settlement agreement, as it is said that the money deposited in the national treasury was ‘dishonestly’ adjusted in the recovery of Bahria Town Karachi (BTK).
