Zardari, Bilawal request NAB to allow two weeks to submit reply

RAWALPINDI: Former president Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari have written a letter to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) requesting more time to submit their response in the fake bank accounts case, ARY News reported on Sunday.

According to sources, the corruption watchdog has received their letter seeking two weeks’ time to submit their reply to a questionnaire handed them during their appearance before the NAB last month.

The father-son duo requested the bureau to allow them until April 17 to submit their response. Sources relayed NAB has taken no decision in this regard yet.

Last month, the NAB had handed over a questionnaire to the PPP leaders after they appeared before the bureau in graft cases.

Sources said the father-son duo were interrogated by two different teams of the bureau in separate rooms on March 20 for more than an hour and they were provided a questionnaire comprising 50 questions after their statements were recorded.

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It is important to mention here that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had earlier on March 28 granted pre-arrest interim bail to the former president and his sister Faryal Talpur in the fake bank accounts case.

A two-member bench, comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, approved the bail for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and his sister against a surety of Rs1 million each.

The bench also issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit its response until April 10.