Corruption cases against Pak PM's wife withdrawn.Byline: ANI Karachi, Sep. 5 (ANI): The corruption cases filed against Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's wife have been withdrawn. Fouzia Yousuf Gilani and five others were accused of obtaining two loans from the Agricultural Development Bank Agricultural Development Bank refers to a number of different institutions, including:
But the National Accountability Bureau The National Accountability Bureau was established in Pakistan on November 16, 1999 with the promulgation of National Accountability Ordinance 1999 immediately after the take over of government by General Pervez Musharraf on October 12, 1999. which had filed the cases against Gilani, Syeda Samina Abrar, Anwar Nasreen, Ziaur Rehman, Khalid Hussain and Nasreen Munawar Chaudhry in 2000 told the court that the matter has been settled and charges withdrawn. According to the prosecution, the accused, who were directors of the Pakistan Green Fertiliser, had obtained a loan of 71.163 million rupees from the ADBP ADBP Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan in November 1987 and not returned the amount after which the National Accountability Bureau had filed a reference against them. The second reference pertained to a loan of 100 million rupees taken from the bank in July 1989 for the Multan Edible Oil Extraction Company. The court had dismissed applications for acquittal in July. The MD of the firms, Munawar Hussain Sindhu, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. on March 10, 2001, while Gilani and others were awarded three-year terms in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused for failing to appear before the court. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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