Islamabad Oct 23 (IANS) Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday appeared before an accountability court for the seventh time as his trial resumed in a case filed against him by the anti-graft National Accountability Bureau.
The NAB prosecution has presented two new witnesses against the minister Dawn news reported.
Abdul Rehman Gondal the branch manager of a private bank s parliament branch provided details to the court of different bank accounts held by Dar in the country.
Gondal the first witness was later cross-examined by Dar s counsel Khawaja Haris.
Masood Ghani the operations manager in a private bank will give his testimony later in the day.
The court on October 18 adjourned the hearing of the graft cases till October 23 after Dar s senior counsel left the country in a rush.
In the preceding hearing of the case Haris had cross-questioned Al-Baraka Islamic Bank s Assistant Vice President Tariq Javed - the prosecution s third witness Dawn news reported.
The court had indicted Dar last month in a NAB case pertaining to his owning assets beyond his known sources of income.
On July 28 a five-member Supreme Court bench had ordered the NAB to file three cases against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and one against Dar on petitions filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf s Imran Khan Jamaat-i-Islami s Sirajul Haq and Awami Muslim League s Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.
In its case against the Finance Minister the NAB has alleged that "the accused has acquired assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his own name and/or in the name of his dependants of an approximate amount of 831 million Pakistan rupees ($7 million)".
It was stated that the assets were "disproportionate to his known sources of income for which he could not reasonably account for".
--IANS
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