ISLAMABAD
\nAn accountability court in Islamabad has accepted Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani\u2019s two-day transit remand on the National Accountability Bureau\u2019s request.
\nAC Judge Bashir heard Mr Durrani\u2019s case on Saturday. The NAB prosecutor told the court that the Sindh Assembly speaker would be presented before the Karachi accountability court on Monday.
\nThe prosecutor requested the court for the grant of a two-day transit remand of Mr Durrani which was accepted. He informed the court that his arrest warrants were already issued and he would be shifted to Karachi as soon as the first flight would be available to the city.
\nThe judge asked Mr Durrani if he wanted to say anything. The speaker replied he wanted to reach Karachi as soon as possible. While talking to media, Durrani said imprisonment was not new to him and he had already spent time in jail. To another question of a journalist as to why did he opt to be arrested from Islamabad instead of Karachi, Mr Durrani quipped he was very fond of travelling in an aeroplane.<\/p>\n
Sindh Assembly Speaker Durrani on Friday surrendered to the NAB after
\nthe Supreme Court ordered him to do so. The NAB team took Mr Durrani
\ninto its custody from outside the apex court building in Islamabad
\nyesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Supreme Court asked Mr Durrani to surrender before the
\nNational Accountability Bureau while rejecting his lawyer\u2019s request
\npleading it to at least let his client surrender before the trial court.<\/p>\n
The apex court ordered Mr Durrani to comply with the Sindh High Court
\norder first and surrender before the NAB. It fixed Mr Durrani\u2019s case for
\nhearing next week. The court said that the Sindh High Court rejected the
\nSindh Assembly speaker\u2019s bail application on merit.<\/p>\n
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah remarked that the apex court could not hear Mr
\nDurrani\u2019s case unless he complied with the SHC order first. He said when
\nthe SHC rejected his bail, he should be in jail.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy Mr Durrani didn\u2019t surrender. Why should we give him a special
\nconcession,\u201d Justice Shah asked Mr Durrani\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n
The apex court also rejected Mr Durrani\u2019s lawyer plea that the speaker
\nshould not be arrested from the court premises. DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD An accountability court in Islamabad has accepted Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani\u2019s two-day transit remand on the National Accountability Bureau\u2019s request. AC Judge Bashir heard Mr Durrani\u2019s case on Saturday. The NAB prosecutor told the court that the Sindh Assembly speaker would be presented before the Karachi accountability court on Monday. The prosecutor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1215,44,1293],"class_list":{"0":"post-230993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-agha-siraj-durrani","9":"tag-court","10":"tag-remand"},"yoast_head":"\n