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Accountability court summons Zardari, Faryal on April 8

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court here has summoned 24 people, including former president Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh MPA Faryal Talpur, in the fake accounts case on April 8.

Accountability Court-II Judge Muhammad Arshad Malik issued notices to them on Friday.

It will be the first hearing of the case since it got shifted to Islamabad from Karachi.

Other people accused of money laundering include Hussain Lawai, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Anwar Majeed, Nimr Majeed and Kamal Majeed of the Omni Group.

Six people have been detained so far. The court ordered to produce all of them – including Aslam Masood who is in FIA custody and Aftab Memon who has been remanded into NAB custody – at the next hearing.

Separately, the NAB Rawalpindi has ordered former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah to appear at the old NAB Headquarters on March 27.

NAB has directed him to bring the relevant record of the Thatta and Dadu sugar mills. NAB said it found the two sugar mills are connected with the fake accounts case.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.