Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court today directed authorities to quash graft cases against senior PPP leader and former minister Jehangir Badar.

A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar directed the National Accountability Bureau to expedite the disposal of cases filed in anti-corruption courts against Badar.

Badar, the secretary general of the Pakistan People's Party, had filed an appeal in the apex court for quashing cases filed against him by the NAB a decade ago.

Hundreds of graft cases have been dropped by NAB after President Pervez Musharraf last year issued the National Reconciliation Ordinance, a controversial law that granted amnesty to PPP leaders in anti-corruption cases filed between 1986 and 1999.

Among those who have benefitted is party Chairman Asif Ali Zardari against whom all graft cases were quashed by anti-corruption courts last week.
Source : PTI