Observer Report
Islamabad
The Islamabad High Court on Monday granted post-arrest bail to Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Miftah Ismail and ordered his immediate release.
The former finance minister was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau in August this year and faces charges in the liquefied natural gas terminal contract case.
After four months of detention, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb accepted Ismail’s bail plea against a surety amount of Rs10 million. Ismail joins other PML-N leaders currently out on bail including former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and ex-Punjab chief minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.
Ismail’s petition said the grounds of his arrest were “wholly inadequate to justify the continued incarceration of such an illustrious citizen on concocted and cooked-up allegations”.
