Court remands Khursheed Shah for another two weeks in NAB custody.

SUKKUR -- Sukkur accountability court on Monday granted to the National Accountability Bureau physical remand of MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah for another 14 days in a case of possession of assets beyond known means.

Judge Ameer Ali Mahesar allowed two-week remand though NAB prosecutor Zubair Malik had sought 15 days on grounds that NAB had unearthed two more plots in the possession of the accused in the course of ongoing investigation, hence it needed additional time to interrogate him.

He informed the court that the bureau had laid hands on record about a two-acre plot in SITE Sukkur and one plot in SITE Karachi in the possession of the accused.

He said that the bureau had learnt that his 'frontman' Akram Pathan transferred Rs2.5 million into two accounts held by him, and obtained record of Rs1.5m of the accused deposited in a bank account during general election 2013, he said. He said the bureau had documentary proof that Pehlaj Rai was a business partner of the accused.

Neither he nor his family members were cooperating in the investigation while his son MPA Farrukh Shah was not even bothering to attend the court hearings, he complained.

The prosecutor said that whenever the accused was asked about how he had come to possess such vast assets his reply was that they were his forefathers' assets and the bureau had better ask them.

He said that a team of doctors had carried out complete medical check-up of the accused on the court's directives and found his condition quite satisfactory.

Khursheed Shah's counsel advocate Raza Rabbani argued that his client had submitted replies to all the questionnaires given to him by...