By By Faisal Kamal Pasha
Filed through his wife, Farah Naz, the advocate Amjad Iqbal Qureshi would plead the case before the court. The court re-listed the case of the ambassador here on Thursday after the power of attorney filed by his lawyer was not found duly signed.
The court, after raising the objection, re-listed the case till the first week of December. Husain Haqqani has applied to the court that he took no benefit under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) 2007, so his name may be removed from the list of beneficiaries.
Seeking intervention of the court on the basis that the NAB had used the NRO to drop its investigation in an FIR registered back in August 1997 and that till 2008 the investigation was not completed in the matter. The petitioner adopted before the court that the NAB could not shape it into a reference even after 11 years. Haqqani was made a co-accused in the case in May 1999 when he was kidnapped and later arrested by the FIA on the orders of Saifur Rehman.
Three FIRs were filed against him. Haqqani was released on bail in all the three cases by the Lahore High Court and the Sindh High Court in July 1999. Later, one of the FIRs was dropped at the investigation stage when no evidence was found and another was quashed by the SHC.
Through his petition before the court, Haqqani contended that the investigation in the FIR under question was an abandoned case. The petition has also said that Husain Haqqani neither filed any application to seek relief under the NRO nor was informed by the NAB that the investigation had been dropped.