Raja Pervaiz Ashraf acquitted in Pira Ghaib rental power plant reference.

ISLAMABAD -- An accountability court in Islamabad acquitted former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and seven others in the Pira Ghaib rental power plant reference on Tuesday.

Apart from the former prime minister, the acquittal pleas of Ismail Qureshi, Shahid Rafi, Shaukat Tareen, Tahir Basharat Cheema, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Chaudhry Abdul Qadeer and Iqbal Shah were also accepted by the accountability court's judge Muhammad Bashir.

NAB had filed the Pira Ghaib rental power reference in 2014, accusing Ashraf of misusing his powers and corruption while he was serving as the water and power minister.

A reference against the PPP leader was filed in December 2019 after Rana Amjad, the manager of the...

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