Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and other accused have been acquitted in the LNG case after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided to withdraw the reference.
The former prime minister appeared in court with his legal team when Justice Nasir Javed Rana conducted the hearing on Tuesday.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Azhar Maqbool said that NAB is going to withdraw the reference and will be prosecuted in this case, the court acquitted all the accused including Shahid Hakan Abbasi.
The former prime minister was arrested in 2019 for defrauding NAB of $21 billion in the LNG case.
