• Opposition leader in the Senate Raja Zafar-ul-Haq said they had submitted a new request after first one returned down by the Senate Secretariat.
• The agenda includes discussion on the recently concluded Gilgit-Baltistan elections and the electricity and gas crisis.

• The report presented in the court reads that NAB had frozen the assets of Shehbaz Sharif family.
• Former CM Punjab is accused of accumulating assets worth Rs7,328 million in connivance with his co-accused family members, benamidars, front persons and close associations and for developing an organized system of money laundering.

• Iqbal is accused of misusing his powers and embezzling funds causing losses worth billions to the national exchequer by initiating the sports city project in his home constituency
• The PML-N MNA denied charges terming them as baseless

• NAB's Strickland noted that news on the virus has been encouraging with community transmission cases falling to eight on Tuesday from 15 on Monday and 30 the day before.

• The bureau has directed the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Chief to submit the response by December 24.
• The accountability watchdog have also warned him for facing legal action if he fails to submit a response in the said time.

• The Aussie stood at $0.7616 having climbed 1.1% for the week to touch $0.7639. That was the highest since June 2018 when it topped at $0.7677, the next major chart target.

• The performance of NAB has also been appreciated by reputed national and international institutions.

• NAB DG told the court the bureau has closed an illegal appointments inquiry against Elahi while the ongoing assets beyond means investigation against both petitioners will be completed in six months
• Chaudhry brothers stated that NAB has become a political institution

• The NAB chairman said the prosperity of business community and country were interlinked.

• During the course of proceedings, the counsel for the accused said that no action was taken against the main accused.

• The NAB chairman said the bureau is a national institution making sincere corruption elimination efforts.

• Chairing a high level meeting of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), he said NAB had no affiliation with any political party, group or individual but with the state of Pakistan.

• A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi will hear the appeals against his bail in the assests beyond means cases.

• Saleem Mandviwalla expressed grievances against the NAB, saying several people have died in bureau's custody and it should be investigated
• Deputy chairman Senate says NAB officials used undue pressure tactics against individuals bringing a bad name to the bureau

Employees of the anti-corruption watchdog, who are tested positive for the virus, have been quarantined.

Multana’s close aides including Gul Asghar and Noor Asghar have been summoned by NAB investigators next week. They are facing charges of possessing assets beyond known sources of income and alleged involvement in corrupt practices.

Siraj Durrani, his brother Agha Maseehuddin Durrani, his daughters Sanam Durrani, Shahana Durrani, Sarah Durrani, Tufail Ahmed, Zulfiqar, Agha Munawar Ali, Ghulam Murtaza and Gulbahar, were named in the charges.

The bureau has acquired evidence regarding the missing wheat sacks worth millions of rupees in Shaheed Benazirabad district.

The prosecution wing will give its legal verdict over the report in the forthcoming regional board meeting.

The reference was filled by Bureau’s Rawalpindi office, nominating former minister of PML-N, former director-general (DG) Akhtar Nawaz and Sarfraz Rasool, Asif Shaikh and Muhammad Ahmed among accused.

NAB, under Anti Money Laundering Act 2010, sought out tax details of Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, brother-in-law Mir Munawar Ali Talpur, his son and party chairman Bilwal Bhutto Zardari, and his daughters Bakhtwar Bhutto Zardari and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari.

The decision was made during a meeting of the anti-graft watchdog's executive board presided over by NAB Chairperson Justice (r) Javed Iqbal.

PML-N workers attacked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) office in August during Maryam Nawaz’s appearance.

• In a statement, the spokesperson revealed that serious irregularities were also found in the allotment of land and other matters by the officials of the finance department, and the accused also confessed to taking financial benefits in this regard.

The former MNA is accused of giving government-owned land on favoritism.

• The prosecutor told the court that the record related to the case was destroyed in a fire in Lahore Development Authority (LDA) building and there is no evidence to frame charges against the PML-N president

• The country’s top accountability watchdog had filed an appeal following the Lahore High Court’s order to remove PML-N president's name from the no fly list

Former federal minister and MQM leader Babar Ghauri has been absconder in the case, while others accused including Sindh Assembly member Javed Hanif, Rauf Akhtar Farooqui have already been nabbed in the case.

The Bureau sought out records from the secretary board of directors of the band. The accountability watchdog is already investigating illegal appointments and promotions case against Ahmed.