LAHORE – The National Accountability Bureau on Thursday took former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi into custody after he failed to appear before the anti-corruption watchdog in a case pertaining to the LNG scandal. Abbasi, a senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), was arrested ...

ISLAMABAD – Accountability Court judge Arshad Malik has decided to move Islamabad High Court (IHC) over a video scandal. The accountability court judge has demanded forensic audit of the video, leaked by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz in a press conference on ...

ISLAMABAD – Accountability Court judge Arshad Malik has rejected the allegations against him levelled by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz in a leaked video. In a press note issued on Sunday, Malik said that the conversation in video is presented out of context. He ...

KARACHI – The Sindh High Court has granted bail to former provincial information minister Sharjeel Memon in Rs5.76 billion corruption case against a surety bond of Rs5 million. A National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team had taken the PPP leader and 11 others into custody on Oct 23, 2017 after ...

LONDON – Former finance minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday approached Home Office in London reportedly to apply for political asylum. Dar, 69, is currently absconding from several cases in Pakistan and has been declared a proclaimed offender by the courts. He is facing charges of accumulating assets ...

LAHORE – Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned to prison with hundreds of his supporters following the expiry of his six-week bail in a corruption case on Tuesday. Police in Punjab capital earlier reached his palace-like residence in Lahore's Jati Umra to arrest the Pakistan ...

LAHORE - Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday said that the elimination of corruption was the foremost priority of the government as it could not go along with the journey of national development. In a meeting with Director General Anti-Corruption Ijaz Hussain Shah here, the prime minister directed ...

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has accepted Bahria Town’s offer of Rs460 billion to end to all inquiries against its management. The court had reserved its verdict on Bahria Town's proposal on March 13 which was announced on Wednesday. ...

ISLAMABAD - The Karachi office of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has apprehended Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani in collaboration with the intelligence wing of the anti-corruption watchdog. According to a NAB press release issued on Wednesday, Durrani is accused of owning ...

LAHORE – An accountability court in Lahore has approved a nine-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan on Thursday. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) authorities have been ordered to present the former minister on February 15 . Abdul Aleem Khan, who stepped ...

PESHAWAR – An accountability court has indicted former federal minister Dr Arbab Alamgir and his wife Asma Alamgir, a former MNA, in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for possessing assets beyond means. A large number of PPP workers thronged the court’s premises to ...

LAHORE – The National Accountability Bureau has apprehended former District Police Officer (DPO) Gujrat Kamran Mumtaz for his alleged involvement in funds embezzlement. According to a NAB spokesman, the accused remained posted as DPO Gujrat during 2015 and 2016, whereas, around Rs550 million were ...

ISLAMABAD – An accountability court in the federal capital sentenced former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison Monday in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case. Accountability Judge Mohammad Arshad Malik delivered the judgement in both the Al Azizia and Flagship Investment ...

KARACHI - A banking court on Friday extended the interim pre-arrest bail for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur till January 7 in a money laundering case. A large number of PPP workers and senior party leaders, including Khursheed Shah and ...

ISLAMABAD - An accountability court on Wednesday reserved verdicts in two corruption reference against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Accountability Judge Arshad Malik will announce the verdicts on Al-Aziz Steel Mills case and Flagship Investment reference on December 24. Khawaja Haris Ahmad, ...

LAHORE – A petition challenging the authority of the National Accountability Bureau to arrest a suspect before concluding investigation against him has been filed in the Lahore High Court. Lawyers Foundation for Justice filed the petition through its counsel A.K.Dogar stating that detaining a ...