Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani was granted protective bail by Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi on Wednesday in a ninth case registered against him by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) with regards to a multi-billion rupee scam involving the Trade and Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).
The petition for bail in the ninth case was filed by Gilani’s counsel yesterday, but was registered too late in the day for any conclusion to be reached on the matter.
Speaking to the press, Gilani said he suspected there were five or six more cases against him in the pipeline. He alleged that the FIA had visited his Multan residence and harassed his employees. He called the incident “discrimination” and “character assassination of a political party”.
PPP Secretary General Sardar Latif Khosa said the former prime minister’s lawyer Farooq H. Naek tried to get protective bail for Gilani so he wasn’t arrested before he could be presented in court.
He added that there shouldn’t be any discrimination against the PPP stalwart, saying that the first names on a list presented by the National Accountability Bureau in court were those of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.
Khosa alleged that Nawaz Sharif had allotted 2,600 two-kanal plots in one day in Lahore’s Johar Town area.
Counsel for the accused Farooq H. Naek said the cases against the former prime minister alleged that Gilani’s deputy secretary had taken a Rs50 lakh bribe, and a confession was forcefully extracted from him under torture. “You cannot run the government and FIA this way,” he said, adding, “Don’t register false cases… and take unfair advantage of your position”. He also appealed to the heads of the FIA to “stop registering false cases”.
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