By Nasir Mahmood

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court yesterday issued notices to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and others on a petition filed by PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain praying to the court to  restrain a trial court from framing charges against him in a corruption reference.

Dr Asim, who has recently been made the chairman of the Sindh HEC, faces the NAB reference on alleged charges of corruption as the federal minister for petroleum and natural resources in the previous PPP government.

He moved the petition in the high court, assailing the verdict of an accountability court that rejected his request not to frame charges against him and quash the reference accusing him of embezzling Rs 17 billion.

In the petition, he submitted that the anti-graft watchdog filed the reference on the basis of fake documents. Hence, it would be unfair to frame charges against me in the case, he added.