{"id":28238,"date":"2018-07-13T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=28238"},"modified":"2018-07-13T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T17:57:00","slug":"verdict-against-hanif-abbasi-on-july-21-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/verdict-against-hanif-abbasi-on-july-21-lhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdict against Hanif Abbasi on July 21: LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ephedrine case<br \/>\nINP<br \/>\nRAWALPINDI<br \/>\nThe Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench ordered on Wednesday that the narcotics smuggling trial against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi be concluded on July 21.<br \/>\nLHC Justice Abdul Rehman Lodhi, while hearing a petition filed by Shahid Orakzai, also ruled that daily proceedings in the case take place from July 16 onwards.<br \/>\nAbbasi, who is contesting the upcoming election from NA-60, Rawalpindi, faces charges of misusing 500kg of the controlled chemical ephedrine which he obtained for his company, Gray Pharmaceutical, in 2010.<br \/>\nThe Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) had registered a case against Abbasi and his accomplices in June 2012 under various sections of the CNS Act.<br \/>\nANF officials claim the substance was sold by Abbasi to narcotics smugglers who used it to make \u2018party drugs\u2019.<br \/>\nThe trial has been ongoing in a Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) Court in Rawalpindi.<br \/>\nAbbasi and the other accused, including his brother, were indicted in 2014 by the CNS Court.<br \/>\nAt an earlier hearing on April 20, as per The News, Abbasi appeared before Judge Muhammad Akram Khan and requested him to de-freeze his accounts.<br \/>\nHowever, the ANF strongly opposed the request and told the court that if Abbasi is acquitted in the ephedrine case, all his accounts will be de-frozen automatically, but it was not possible to de-freeze them at this stage.<br \/>\nAt present, Abbasi has also been accused of impeding officials of the National Accountability Bureau from arrested PML-N leader Capt (retd) Safdar after he was sentenced to jail in the Avenfield properties case.<br \/>\nAbbasi, a former MNA from Rawalpindi, is expected to have a tough electoral contest on July 25 with Sheikh Rasheed \u2014 who is allied with PML-N\u2019s chief opponent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephedrine case INP RAWALPINDI The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench ordered on Wednesday that the narcotics smuggling trial against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi be concluded on July 21. LHC Justice Abdul Rehman Lodhi, while hearing a petition filed by Shahid Orakzai, also ruled that daily proceedings in the case take place from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Verdict against Hanif Abbasi on July 21: LHC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/verdict-against-hanif-abbasi-on-july-21-lhc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Verdict against Hanif Abbasi on July 21: LHC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ephedrine case INP RAWALPINDI The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench ordered on Wednesday that the narcotics smuggling trial against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi be concluded on July 21. 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