ISLAMABAD – An accountability court in Islamabad has cancelled permanent arrest warrants issued for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar who appeared in the court on Friday morning.
The court also ordered Ishaq Dar to submit a surety bond of one million rupees.
During the hearing Dar’s lawyer Qazi Misbah pleaded the court to permanently cancel his warrants and also removed the order of confiscating his property.
Addressing the media, he said no one will be allowed to control rupee s value artificially.
The Minister said by every passing day rupee s value is improving, however, he regretted that the previous government devalued Pakistan s currency artificially.
The Minister urged all political parties not to do politics over economy. He said charter of economy is need of the hour and a consensus should be developed in this regard.
The Minister said with improved rupee s value our foreign debt has decreased by 2600 billion rupees within few days.
The Minister said the case of not filing tax returns against him is baseless and just aimed at taking political revenge.
