LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday adjourned to October 14 the hearing of a reference against former railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq and his brother Khwaja Salman Rafiq after a prosecution witness recorded his statement. The court directed the NAB to present more witnesses on the next hearing.

The NAB accused the Khwaja brothers of wrongfully gaining Rs 18.2 million approximately from M/s Paragon City (pvt) Limited in their bank accounts. It said the Khwaja brothers through their "benamidars" and with the abetment of Qaiser Amin Butt and Nadeem Zia established a housing project and cheated the public at large.

Khwaja Saad talking to the journalists after attending the proceedings said Prime Minister Imran Khan had done nothing for the people of the Pakistan except hurling abuses at the opposition leaders and calling them corrupts. He said it was the responsibility of the state and the rulers to bring the country out of chaos. The former minister also lamented that the growing unemployment had contributed to the street crime.

He said if Khan was still unaware how to run a government he would never learn it. He said the bad governance and vindictive politics of the government led the country to a chaos that compelled the opposition to form the alliance-Pakistan Democratic Movement. He said Imran had an obsession with putting all his political opponents in jails.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020