ISLAMABAD, JAN 29 (DNA) –  An accountability court is to resume hearing of the assets reference filed against former finance minister Ishaq Dar by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as the court has summoned five more prosecution witnesses to testify today.

Judge Muhammad Bashir is conducting Dar’s trial in connection with a reference filed against him by NAB in compliance of Supreme Court’s landmark July 28 verdict, accusing him of amassing assets beyond known means of income.

At the last hearing on Jan 26, prosecution witnesses Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Deputy Director Saeed Ahmed Khan, Lahore Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) Mohammad Naeem, former Nadra director Qaboos Aziz, analyst Zafar Iqbal Mufti, Inland Revenue Commissioner Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan, and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Deputy Director Mirza Faizur Rehman documented their records before the court.

The witnesses provided bank account details of the former finance minister and his family in the NAB reference.

LDA official Rehman submitted records of Dar’s property in Lahore’s Gulberg area. He revealed that the property had previously belonged to film star Deeba.