ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday arrested the former Federal Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail and the former Managing Director Pakistan State Oil (PSO) Sheikh Imran Ul Haq in a Case related to the award of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract.
Both of them were taken into custody from the premises of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) after a two-member bench of the Court didn’t approve their bail plea.
Now NAB will produce them before an Accountability Court tomorrow.
اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ:مفتاح اسماعیل کی ضمانت قبل از گرفتاری کی درخواست پر سماعت
عدالت نے مفتاح اسماعیل کی ضمانت قبل از گرفتاری کی درخواست مسترد کر دی
مفتاح اسماعیل اور عمران الحق کو نیب کی ٹیم نے احاطہ عدالت سے گرفتار کر لیا pic.twitter.com/fGPpQ0i7QO— PTV News (@PTVNewsOfficial) August 7, 2019
Earlier on July 18, the former Prime Minister and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was also apprehended by NAB from Lahore in the same case.
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The Chairman NAB Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal had also approved the arrest warrant of Miftah Ismail and Sheikh Imran Ul Haq along with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the LNG Case; however, the Miftah Ismail sought the protective bail from the Sindh High Court (SHC), which he was granted to him against surety bond of Rs 500,000.
