KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday barred National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from arresting Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Memon in assets and abuse of power cases. 
During the hearing, the NAB prosecutor said that they have already submitted the details regarding the reference filed against Sharjeel Memon. “Two references have been filed against him, and two inquiries and two investigations against him separately underway,” the prosecutor said. The counsel of Sharjeel Memon in his argument before the SHC bench said it seems that NAB is carrying out more hidden inquiries against his client and pleaded with the court to seek details from the NAB in this context. SHC while seeking the details directed the NAB not to arrest Sharjeel Memon without permission from the court and adjourned the hearing until October 27. PPP leader Sharjeel Memon and 16 others have been charged with misappropriating advertisement funds of the information department to the tune of Rs5.76 billion. NAB had filed a reference against them in 2016 over involvement in alleged irregularities in awarding contracts to different newspapers and channels for running public interest advertisement and others. On July 19, PPP lawmaker Sharjeel Memon who is facing graft cases has pleaded before the court to remove his name from the no-fly list in order to attend the first university day of his daughter in a foreign university.
SHC hears appeals against 
sentences in nine-zero raid case
The Rangers public prosecutor on Wednesday sought time for submitting reply from the Sindh High Court (SHC) in hearing of appeals against sentences in Nine-Zero raid and recovery of arms case.
MQM worker Ubaid K2 and 10 other convicts had filed appeals in the high court (SHC) against sentences awarded by an anti-terrorism court in the case.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) bench granted the plea of prosecution and directed special public prosecutor to submit reply in the next hearing of the case on October 12.
The Rangers force in a raid on the MQM’s head office Nine-Zero on March 11, 2015 recovered large quantity of arms and ammunition from the party’s office in Azizabad Karachi.
Alleged target killer of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Ubaid-ur-Rehman alias Ubaid K2 and others challenged punishment in the case pertaining to illegal arms and explosive material recovered from the party’s head office.
Ubaid K2, Nadeem Ahmed, Aamir Tautla, Abdul Qadir and others were awarded sentence of over eight years imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court (ATC).
The convict was arrested from the MQM headquarters, Nine Zero, on March 11, 2015, when the paramilitary soldiers had raided the party’s headquarters and adjoining areas to arrest a number of MQM workers who were in hiding over there.