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SC stops accountability courts from issuing final verdict in NAB cases

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Islamabad: On Tuesday, the Supreme Court prevented accountability tribunals from rendering decision in instances involving graft. The orders were given by the court during the hearing of the first-ever intra-court appeals (ICAs) against its majority ruling on September 15, which invalidated the accountability law’s changes. The hearing was postponed until the whole decision about the legislation limiting the chief justice’s authority was made public. Two ICAs were taken up by the larger bench, which was led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and included Justices Aminuddin Khan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Athar Minallah, and Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi. The federal government filed one of the ICAs, and former SSGCL managing director Zuhair Ahmed Siddiqui filed the other.

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