Former president Asif Ali Zardari arrives in a court for a hearing. AP/File
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a set of appeals filed by former president Asif Ali Zardari seeking transfer of corruption references to any accountability court in Karachi from Islamabad.
Headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, the three-judge bench also issued notices to all respondents in the petition namely the presiding officer of accountability court, Islamabad; former prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif, and former CEO of Summit Bank Hussain Lawai.
During the hearing, the court observed that it had to determine under what situation the Supreme Court had ordered fixing of the corruption references in the Islamabad accountability courts instead of Karachi courts.