Liaquat Qaimkhani sent to jail on judicial remand in fake bank accounts case.

ISLAMABAD -- An accountability court on Monday sent Karachi Metropolitan Corporation's (KMC) former director-general (DG) parks Liaquat Qaimkhani to the jail on judicial remand, in a fake bank accounts case.

Qaimkhani was presented in the court of Judge Muhammad Bashir over charges of accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income.

At the outset of the hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials requested the court to extend the physical remand of the former DG Parks KMC, but the court denied and ordered to send him to jail on judicial remand.

In his arguments, the NAB's prosecutor said Qaimkhani awarded land of Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim through unfair means and the record of the matter was kept in his house, which was recovered by the accountability team, during the raid at his house.

'We have doubt that other record might be concealed in his house', said and demanded to extend his [Qaimkhani's] physical remand for...

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