Money-laundering case: Court summons three more witnesses against Zardari, Faryal

ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court hearing multi-billion rupees fake bank accounts case, on Tuesday, summoned three more prosecution witnesses in mega money laundering case against former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, and the other accused.

The Accountability Court judge, Muhammad Azam Khan, on September 28 had indicted former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and other accused in the same case, and had summoned three persecution witnesses including Syed Muhammad Atif, Manzoor Hussain, and Arslan Aslam, for recording of their statements.

At the start of the hearing, Zardari and Talpur's counsels filed applications seeking one day exemption of their clients, which the court approved. The three witnesses appeared before the court on Tuesday but the court did not record their statements, due to protest of the Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) and adjourned hearing till October 28th.

The court following the request of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)'s prosecutor also summoned three more witnesses including Naeem Khan, Meeroz Akhtar, and Christopher D Craz to appear before it during the next hearing. The NAB had nominated Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Hussain Lawai, Anwar Majid, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Taha Raza, Arif Khan, Muhammad Umair, Syed Hussain Faisal Shah Jamote, Azam Wazir Khan, Nimr Majid, Mustafa Z Majid, Ali Kemal Malik, M Younas Kudwavi, Zain Malik, Haji Haroon, Khawaja Muhammad Salman Younus, Pir Darvesh Khan, Imran Khan, Muhammad Aurangzeb, and Bilal Shaikh, in the supplementary reference.

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