The warrants against the two were issued in a case relating to financial irregularities in the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP). Subsequently, the court adjourned the hearing till June 17.
The case in this regard had been registered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) when Amin Faheem was Commerce Minister.Gilani and Fahim had been accused of involvement in Rs7 billion financial scam in TDAP. Muhammad Firdous, the key accused, turned approver against the former prime minister and former federal minister.
The court had previously issued three notices to Gilani and Faheem, requiring them to appear before it. The notices were ignored after which bailable arrest warrants were issued against both the leaders. On Thursday, however, the court issued non-bailable arrest warrants and adjourned the hearing till June 17.
Meanwhile, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said that he would appear in the Accountability Court, Islamabad on June 4 and also ATC court in Karachi in TDAP case adding he had been facing fabricated cases in the past and would face these now as well.
In a statement issued here Gilani said that he was only one who had received the notices to appear in the court adding that he was determined to defend himself as he had done in the past.
He said if the competent appointing authority was to be held responsible, no one could be spared if the intentions were motivated by vendetta.He advised the Ministry of Interior and the present government to bring out all the cases against him and his sons in order to avoid the implications of double jeopardy.
He lamented that no case in this country was completed without implicating him whether it was case of Ogra, NICL, NRO, TDAP or Haj scam. The beneficiaries of the NRO had been exonerated but he was still facing the music. “These are classic examples of miscarriage of justice,” he said.
He said that his sons had been implicated in false cases while his other son was kidnapped and they knew the amount of torture his family was going through.He asked the government to avoid crossing the limits of victimisation and unleash it to the extent they could also bear it tomorrow. They had no stomach to tolerate even the fraction of what was going on against him, he observed.
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