Yousuf Raza Gilani leaves after the Islamabad High Court granted him bail in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Islamabad - A single bench comprising Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi granted the bail to Gilani and directed him to furnish surety bonds of Rs100,000 in each case.
Published: Wed 2 Sep 2015, 12:00 AM
Last updated: Wed 2 Sep 2015, 9:46 AM
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday granted protective bail to Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for seven days in nine cases registered against him in the Trade Development Authority (TDAP) scandal.
A single bench comprising Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi granted the bail to Gilani and directed him to furnish surety bonds of Rs100,000 in each case.
The former prime minister appeared at IHC, accompanied by lawyers and supporters, to seek pre-arrest bail in eight cases. Upon finding out that another case has been registered against him, Gilani sought protective bail in nine cases.
The protective bail will prevent the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from arresting him till he appears in the anti-corruption court in Karachi. The court accepted his petitions for hearing and the single bench of IHC granted protective bail for seven days to Gilani.
Later, speaking to media, Gilani said that the FIA can not take any action without permission of the government.
An anti-corruption court on August 28 had issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Yousuf Raza Gilani and his fellow PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim.
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peshawar - A suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded 30 others on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan, where security forces are battling militants, officials said.
Each of two allied terrorist groups, the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Islam, claimed responsibility for the attack in the Khyber Agency area near the Afghan border, where the military has been battling them since last October.
The attack targeted a paramilitary vehicle outside a government compound in the Jamrud area of the region, official Shaukatullah Afridi, who was metres away from the blast, said.
"I had just entered the office and sat on my chair when I heard a huge blast," Afridi said.
"It seemed as if the whole building had collapsed."
Afridi's office is on the road leading from the city of Peshawar, through the Khyber Pass, to the Afghan border.
At least 42 wounded people were taken to hospital in Peshawar, about 20km to the east, hospital doctor Noor Wazir said, adding the death toll could rise.
The 'foreign-funded' Taleban are waging a campaign of terror in Pakistan and have killed tens of thousands of people in bomb blasts firing attacks in the last few years. Representatives of both the TTP and Lashkar-e-Islam claimed to have carried out the attack.
TTP's purported spokesman Mohammed Khorasani said in a telephone call to Reuters the attack was revenge for government operations against them.
Lashkar-e-Islam spokesman Salahuddin Ayubi also telephoned Reuters, claiming that his group had carried out the attack.
Hundreds of terrorists have been killed in ground fighting and air strikes, the military says. Some soldiers have also been killed.
Hundreds of militants are said to have taken refuge in Khyber after fleeing a military offensive against their stronghold of North Waziristan, along the Afghan border to the south, that began in June last year. - Reuters
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