Zardari, Bilawal to seek more time from NAB for questionnaire response: sources

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have decided to seek more time from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file reply into graft charges, ARY News reported Monday.

According to sources, the top PPP leaders would write a letter to NAB in this regard.

The letter will be forwarded to the accountability watchdog by Farooq H. Naek.

Sources within the PPP said the party leaders would seek a period of 15 days to file reply to NAB questionnaire. The top leaders couldn’t yet submit reply due to busy schedule in the wake of party activities, sources added.

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Sources said the PPP leaders believe they need some time to go through the questions and file its replies.

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.

Earlier, on March 19, the Sindh High Court (SHC) had granted protective bail for ten days to the former president in the fake bank accounts and Park Lane cases against a surety of Rs1 million each. It also accepted the bail plea from Faryal Talpur in the money laundering case for Rs1 million.

The PPP co-chairman and his sister Faryal Talpur along with their lawyer Farooq H Naek appeared in the court.

A banking court in Karachi had transferred the money laundering case against the former president, his sister and others to Rawalpindi on a request by NAB, in the mid of March.