ISLAMABAD – Various benches of the Supreme Court will hear high profile cases today (Monday) including smuggling through the container meant for supplies to ISAF in Afghanistan, which have been entering Pakistan over the past four years in the name of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and the pilfering that caused a whopping loss of Rs 19 to Rs 37 billion to the national exchequer.
The cases will be heard by a three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani. The same bench will also hear a suo motu case pertaining to killing of five persons in an incident of illegal drag car race at Bahria Town, Rawalpindi on December 5, 2010. Besides, the bench will hear a case pertaining to compensation to the affectees of Iraq-Kuwait war.
Another bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa will hear petitions against the appointment of Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah as National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman. The petition against the appointment of NAB chairman was filed by the leader of spposition in the National Assembly Ch Nisar Ali Khan and one Shahid Orakzai.
