Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Musa Gilani postponed his return to Pakistan, as he could not get a pre-arrest bail in the Ephedrine drug case involving a corruption of over Rs 7 billion.
Sources said that Ali Musa had been asked to stay back in Dubai because the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) had decided to arrest him upon returning to Pakistan. According to reports, Ali Musa was scheduled to reach Islamabad from Dubai on Friday morning, and the protocol staff of the Prime Minister’s House had reached the airport to receive him. However, the PM’s son suddenly postponed his return. His counsel Fawad Chaudhry told a private TV channel that an application for the pre-arrest bail of Ali Musa Gilani would soon be filed in the apex court. However, Chaudhry was reluctant to specify a date or time for the application’s submission. But sources said that Ali Musa would return only after he was granted a pre-arrest bail by the court.
The Supreme Court had earlier issued a notice to Ali Musa Gilani and directed him to appear before it, as part of the ongoing investigations regarding the import of controlled substance Ephedrine, and the subsequent attempts to hush up an enquiry into the matter. The PM’s son, who had flown to South Africa just before the issuance of the notices, has claimed that he was being “wrongly” implicated in the case.
PM’s son won’t return without pre-arrest bail
