Top Court orders Bahria Town, MDA's accounts to be unfrozen.

Islamabad -- The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that Bahria Town and Malir Development Authority's (MDA) accounts all over the country be unfrozen, clarifying its previous orders.

Bahria Town counsel Aitzaz Ahsan, who had filed the miscellaneous petition on Thursday, told a three-member SC bench on Friday that private banks all over the country have sealed his client's accounts on the orders of the State Bank of Pakistan.

'Due to accounts being sealed, the release of Bahria Town employees' salaries and other development work has ceased,' the counsel said. 'Malir Development Authority's accounts have also been frozen.'

At this, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, who was heading the SC bench, clarified that the court had only ordered 'the monitoring of two accounts', adding that 'the FIA exceeds its authority.'

'We had said the same regarding the school case,' the top judge recalled. 'We had passed orders regarding 27 schools and they started sealing schools.'

Justice Nisar also asked...