The Islamabad High Court on Monday gave permission to auction the house of former finance minister Ishaq Dar’s wife.
The Punjab government had submitted a petition to auction this house earlier in 2018 for an estimated price of Rs170 million, but the Dar family challenged the decision and filed a petition against the verdict.
A stay order was issued by the Islamabad High Court, which halted the auction. That stay order has now been vacated.
Dar’s wife Tabbasum Ishaq claimed that the house was her property. She claimed that Dar had gifted the house situated in Gulberg-III, Lahore, to her on February 14, 1989.
“I am the owner of Gulberg-III house,” Tabassum pleaded. She said the accountability court issued its order for the auction in November last year without taking her claim into consideration. However, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiani and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz rejected her appeal.
Dar has been absconding from court proceedings since 2017 following the registration of a reference against him.
Later, the NAB confiscated his various bank accounts worth Rs500 million and his house, spread over four kanals and seven marlas.
