ISLAMABAD:An accountability court in Islamabad has accepted Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani’s two-day transit remand on the NAB’s request.
AC Judge Muhammad Bashir heard Mr Durrani’s 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 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.
The 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, Mr Durrani said imprisonment was not new to him and he had already spent time in jail.
NAB arrested Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani outside the Supreme Court after the SC ordered him to surrender before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The order came when the three-member bench was hearing the pre-arrest bail plea of Durrani. Justice Mansoor Ali Shah observed that the Sindh High Court rejected Durrani’s bail plea on the basis of merit.