An accountability court will today announce its verdict on the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) plea to auction absconding suspect Ishaq Dar’s assets in Pakistan, a private TV channel reported. After hearing the anti-graft body’s arguments on Monday, the court reserved its verdict. The petition was filed by NAB after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader went to London for medical treatment and continues to abscond in corruption cases against him in the accountability court. The court will announce its verdict at 9am today. Last week, the NAB had submitted to the accountability court details of the former finance minister’s assets that had been seized. During the last hearing, NAB Special Prosecutor Imran Shafiq had said if reservations were not raised within the given time then the assets could be sold. “The accused can approach the court till six months after the assets are sold,” he had told the court. The former finance minister is accused of possessing assets beyond his declared sources of income and a reference against the former finance minister was filed by NAB in light of the Supreme Court’s July 28 verdict in the Panama Papers case. Published in Daily Times, October 2nd, 2018.