KARACHI: An anti-corruption court on Thursday cancelled the bail of a former director general of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan over his extended absence in seven cases pertaining to a multi-billion rupee trade subsidy scam.

The then DG (facilitation division) of the TDAP, Abdul Karim Dawood Pota, along with a number of former senior officials and individuals has been facing charges for his alleged involvement in approval and disbursement of fraudulent trade subsidies of billion of rupees to several fake companies during the tenure of the PPP government.

The judge of a federal anti-corruption court cancelled the bail after the suspect did not turn up despite repeated court orders and the court directed the Federal Investigation Agency to arrest him and produce on Nov 17.

A total of over 70 cases pertaining to the trade subsidy scam are pending before the court while the then prime minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, has also been facing over 20 such cases.

Order on MPA`s bail plea reserved An antiterrorism court reserved on Thursday its order on the bail application of a provincial lawmaker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in a case related to the alleged distribution of CDs of anti-state speeches.

MPA Shiraz Waheed along with absconding accomplices has been bool
After hearing arguments from both sides, the ATC-II judge reserved the order on bail application till Nov 7.

Meanwhile, police also submitted the final charge-sheet in the case and the court issued warrants forthe arrestofabsconders.

Murder case against judge A murder case against a former district and sessions judge was transferred from an antiterrorism court Hyderabad to an ATC in Karachi.

The then district and sessions judge (Mithi), Sikandar Lashari, along with Irfan Khan, alias Fahim, has been charged with murdering 19-year-old Agib Shahani, son of his fellow district and sessions judge Khalid Hussain Shahani, in Hyderabad in Fe bruary 2014.

The ATC judge in Hyderabad, Obaidullah Khan, sent a reference to the chief justice of the Sindh High Court requesting him to transfer the case to any other court since both sides were known to him.

The SHC transferred the case to ATC-II Karachi and the court fixed it for hearing on Oct 29.