A recent amendment to the National Accountability Bureau law has transferred the final appellate jurisdiction in NAB cases from the Supreme Court to the newly established Federal Constitutional Court, a development with far-reaching implications for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, The News reported.
The National Accountability Bureau (Amendment) Act, 2026 inserts a new Section 32A, which identifies the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) as the forum for second appeals against High Court judgments in NAB cases.
According to the sources, the PTI leadership knows that not only the most consequential £190 million (Al-Qadir Trust) case but also in any other case which falls under the NAB domain will finally go to the Constitutional Court.
The said section reads as: “32A Second Appeal. Any person convicted or the Prosecutor General Accountability, if so directed by the NAB chairman, aggrieved by the decision made by the High Court under section 32, may prefer a second appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court within a period of thirty days.”
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