Court rejects NAB appeal in extension of Khawaja Asif physical remand.

On Friday, an accountability court in Lahore rejected a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) request seeking a 15-day extension in PML-N leader Khawaja Asif's physical remand and issued orders for 14-day judicial remand instead.

Khawaja Asif had been arrested by the anti-graft watchdog on December 30, 2020 from outside Ahsan Iqbal's residence in Islamabad where he had come to attend a party meeting. NAB said the former defence minister was arrested in a case pertaining to accumulating assets beyond known sources of income.

The bureau presented Khawaja Asif before the accountability court's Judge Jawad ul Hassan today and sought a 15-day extension in his physical remand.

Khawaja Asif's counsel argued however that the...

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