ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal are scheduled to be freed from jail today.
In this regard, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court will issue the release orders for both leaders after they submit their surety bonds worth Rs10 million. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal were granted bail yesterday by the Islamabad High Court in the corruption cases.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is facing charges of corruption over awarding an LNG import contract allegedly at exorbitant rates in 2015. He was arrested by NAB while en-route to Thokar Niaz Baig in Lahore on 18th July.
Whereas Ahsan Iqbal was arrested on 23rd December last by the National Accountability Bureau. Since then, Iqbal has been seeking post-arrest bail. He insisted that the funds allocated on the NSC were authorized by the Federal Cabinet, Parliament and the National Economic Council at that time. The plan for the project had been revised and expanded.
However, the NAB had decided t0 challenge the bail of Abbasi and Iqbal in the Supreme Court. The bureau chairman Javed Iqbal chaired a meeting in this regard in Islamabad.
Read more: LNG case: AC extends Shahid Khaqan’s judicial remand till March 9
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