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Ex-Pak PM Ashraf indicted in rental power case

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ANI Islamabad

Former Pakistani prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, along with six others, has been indicted in the rental power case by an accountability court in Islamabad.

Ashraf is accused of misusing his authority during his tenure as the minister for water and power to obtain approval from the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and the cabinet for an increase in the down payment to the rental power companies from 7 percent to 14 percent, amounting to about INR 22 billion.

However, all seven accused, including the former federal mister for water and power, refused to plead guilty in the court, Dawn News reports.

The bench hearing the case has sought all relevant evidence from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the next hearing of the case on February 4, the report added.

 

Ashraf, who belongs to the Pakistan People Party (PPP) said that the issue was sub-judiced.

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First Published: Jan 17 2014 | 12:28 PM IST

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