The hearing of references against former president Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Toshakhana case was deferred on Thursday by an accountability court in Islamabad.
Since the trial of Imran Khan, founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is still underway at Rawalpindi Central Jail, Judge Muhammad Bashir of the anti-graft court did not preside over the case today.
Vehicles stolen from the Toshakhana by Yousuf Raza Gilani, the head of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the co-chairman of the PPP, and the supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are the subject of the hearing.
The NAB was unable to submit an additional reference against the defendants, it should be mentioned.
The case’s hearing has been postponed until January 15.
The country’s highest anti-corruption agency has charged Zardari and Nawaz with unlawfully keeping the lavish cars bestowed upon them by various foreign governments and dignitaries, rather of presenting them to the Toshakhana.
Gilani was also accused by the NAB of helping the PPP co-chairman keep the cars when he was prime minister.
They kept the cars “against a nominal payment of 15% of their total value” using “dishonest and illegal means for their benefit and interest,” the anti-corruption committee said of Zardari and Nawaz.
In the Toshakhana case, Zardari and Gillani were indicted on September 9, 2020, by the anti-graft court. Nawaz was also named as a proclaimed offender in the court’s ruling on the same case.
