ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has appointed Justice (retd) Shah Khawar as the bureau’s special prosecutor, a press release said on Tuesday.
Khawar is a former judge of the Lahore High Court as well as a senior advocate of the Supreme Court. He has also served as the deputy attorney general and assistant advocate general.
The special prosecutor will represent NAB in all important cases presently under way, including the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case. The Hudaibiya case is under way in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
On December 9, NAB requested the adjournment of the proceedings until a new prosecutor general is appointed at the bureau. The bureau had stated in a written request to the court that the Hudaibiya case is of a special nature and thus requires to be argued by the special prosecutor.
The office of NAB prosecutor had been vacant since Waqas Qadeer Dar retired in November.
At the last hearing of the case on Monday (yesterday), the three-member apex court bench had dismissed NAB’s request to adjourn the hearing until the special prosecutor’s appointment.
