A court in Rawalpindi has restored former under-arrest minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi’s foreign currency bank account. Kazmi’s counsel Ahmed Khan Gondal told this to media after the hearing on Thursday.
This is the first relief granted to Kazmi since his arrest. He was involved in an infamous corruption scandal regarding facilities of Pakistani pilgrims performing the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and was accused of not managing adequate food, resources and living space for them during their stay.
He was consequently sacked from office on December 14, 2010 and Khurshid Shah replaced him.
