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According to Dawn newspaper, NAB prosecution has submitted details of 80 cases in Islamabad’s accountability court. Several other cases have been returned to accountability courts in Rawalpindi and Quetta. According to official sources, after the intervention of the apex court, about 2,000 cases against officials and businessmen which were closed earlier are being reopened.
Following a historic verdict by the Pakistan Supreme Court recently, at least 80 major corruption cases which were closed will be reopened against some people including former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif and former President Asif Ali Zardari. This claim was made in a news on Friday. Official sources said these cases are among hundreds of cases closed as a result of amendments made to anti-corruption laws by the previous government of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. He said that hearing in these cases will start soon.
The apex court bench headed by former Chief Justice of Pakistan Omar Ata Bandial had on September 15 struck down amendments to anti-corruption laws and directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to close cases against people holding public positions. To be reopened within seven days. The apex court had given its verdict on a petition filed last year by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan had challenged the amendments made to accountability laws by the government of then Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
According to Dawn newspaper, NAB prosecution has submitted details of 80 cases in Islamabad’s accountability court. Several other cases have been returned to accountability courts in Rawalpindi and Quetta. According to official sources, after the intervention of the apex court, about 2,000 cases against officials and businessmen which were closed earlier are being reopened.
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