ISLAMABAD: The judge of an accountability court of Islamabad, Mohammad Bashir, has held that finance minister Senator Ishaq Dar does not seem to have a serious heart condition.

Dar is in London for the past few weeks for treatment of his heart problem and is not attending the court proceedings. He had submitted a medical certificate stating his illness.

The judge had declared Dar a proclaimed offender in a reference initiated against him for allegedly possessing assets beyond his sources of income after he repeatedly failed to join the trial.

‘NO HEART AILMENT’

Dar’s lawyer had submitted a new medical report and told the court that his client was suffering from chest pain and a minor issue in a coronary artery and, therefore, could not appear in court.

The prosecution, however, had rejected these claims and declared that the former minister was not suffering from any medical issues because all of his medical reports presented in court differed from the other.

The judge ruled that Dar’s medical report does not seem to indicate that he is suffering from a serious cardiac ailment or that he is unfit to travel to Pakistan to appear before the courts.

When all the medical reports are kept together, it seems that they were procured with the purpose to linger on the case, he said adding that while one report by Dr Christopher Baker states that “there was no disease of ischaemia (heart disease),” another issued by Dr Deshpandi is of a different opinion.

The order said that the accused is not appearing before the court deliberately and is avoiding execution of warrant.