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SC resumes hearing of chemical quota case today
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume hearing of chemical quota allotment case today (Friday).The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has named the prime minister's younger son, Ali Musa Gilani, as an accused in its investigation report on the illegal allocation of import quotas for a controlled drug.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will resume hearing of the case on Friday.
In the 23-page investigation report prepared for the Supreme Court, the ANF's Regional Director (Rawalpindi) Brig. Faheem Ahmed Khan has informed the apex court of eight new suspects in the Ephedrine quota case, including Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's principal secretary Khushnood Akhtar Lashari and Ministry of Narcotics Control Secretary Zafar Abbas Luk.
Other suspects include National Assembly member Mian Abdus Sattar and his colleague, Anjum Shah, Drug Controller Sheikh Ansar as well as the Deputy Drug Controller, Abdus Sattar Suhrani.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an international body monitoring the implementation of the United Nations' (UN) drug control conventions, permits Pakistan to import a total of 22,000kg of Ephedrine a year - a limit it exceeded by nine tonnes when the devolved ministry of health allocated 30909.55kg in 2010.
Courtesy www.geo.tv