Petition filed in SC against verdict to declare Ishaq Dar 'fugitive'.

ISLAMABAD -- A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan challenging the verdict to declare former finance minister Ishaq Dar an absconder in a corruption reference.

According to details, Ishaq Dar's lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court on the issue of declaring former finance minister as a judicial fugitive.

In his petition, Ishaq Dar has pleaded the court to set the appeal for immediate hearing. The petition also requested that the appeal may be set for hearing next week.

"If the appeal against the decision to declare the fugitive is not heard soon, irreparable harm will be done", the petition further stated.

On November 21, 2017, accountability court Islamabad declared Ishaq Dar as an...

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