NAB to summon Zardari in Uppal case next week.

Byline: NOKHAIZ SAHI

ISLAMABAD -- The Combined Investigation Team of National Accountability Bureau on money laundering through fake accounts case has decided to summon former president Asif Ali Zardari in the joint venture Uppal case next week, The Nation has learnt reliably. Zardrai Group of Companies had signed an agreement with a private housing society and the housing society paid Rs1.25 billion to the group. Zardari Group of Companies is facing allegation of transfer of money through fake accounts. The NAB CIT had also summoned senior PPP leader Faryal Talpur and recoded her statement in the same case. Earlier, the NAB CIT had summoned PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Zardari in February and investigated them in fake accounts case and recoded their statement and gave them questionnaires and directed to submit it back to CIT within 10 days. Zardrai had submitted his reply but Bilawal failed to follow the NAB CIT instructions in this regard. On the other hand, a team of National Commission for Human Rights [NCHR] Pakistan headed by Chairman Commission Justice (retd) Ali Nawaz Chohan Thursday visited the National Accountability Bureau's detention camp Rawalpindi/Islamabad Bureau and directed to maintain the details of arrested persons properly. The NCHR team visited the detention camp under the...