A Pakistani court dismissed an appeal by Interior Minister Rehman Malik against his conviction in two corruption references by an accountability court and restored a three-year imprisonment awarded to him.
The accountability court had sentenced Rehman Malik to a three-year imprisonment in each of the two NAB references. A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court comprising Chief Justice Khawaja Mohammad Sharif and Justice Waqar Hasan Mir dismissed Malik’s plea and restored the sentence after he failed to appear in the court.
Malik’s counsel claimed no notice was sent to the minister to appear before the court and a verdict given in his absence would be illegal. He also requested the Lahore High Court to halt the punishment orders against him. Malik is out of the country and there are unconfirmed reports that he may not return till the matter is settled
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