ARU chief has no powers to collect evidence, SC told
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: The office of the Assets Recovery Unit´s (ARU) chairman does not fall under the definition of the `service of Pakistan` since the individual concerned is a special assistant to the prime minister, argued Advocate Babar Sattar before a 10-judge full court of the Supreme Court on Tuesday during the hearing of a set of challenges to the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. `The ARU is not a department established under the law and at best it can be said that it was set up under an executive order,` Babar Sattar said, citing rules dealing with the service of Pakistan. Justice Umar Ata Bandial heads the full court. Babar Sattar, who was on his legs for the second...