Court extends physical remand of Khursheed Shah

Shah’s counsel argues that ‘financial front men’ recorded statements denying links with PPP leader

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad accountability court extended the physical remand of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Shah on Monday for 15 days on the plea of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

The NAB prosecutor said Shah is not cooperating with NAB’s investigators owing to which his further remand is required. He said that the investigation team is probing the financial links between a trader and a contractor with Shah.

He apprised the court that a team of doctors examined Shah and that in the light of his medical reports, his health condition has been described as satisfactory.

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Shah’s counsel, senator advocate Raza Rabbani, said that the two persons being cited as the financial front men of Shah have already recorded their statements with NAB, denying such a link with the PPP leader. He said that although NAB had kept Shah under remand for more than a month, the interrogation conducted from him so far stretched to some minutes.

Shah was arrested on September 18, 2019, from Islamabad in an assets beyond means case. A large number of the PPP supporters gathered outside the court as Shah was brought by the NAB Sukkur for the hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22^nd, 2019.