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Anti-graft court acquits Asad Munir three years after his suicide

The ex-official took his life after leaving a letter addressed to the then CJP pleading his innocence
Munir served in the Pakistan Army at different command and staff appointments as well as heading ISI’s KP sector. He also worked as Capital Development Authority's official. File photo
Munir served in the Pakistan Army at different command and staff appointments as well as heading ISI’s KP sector. He also worked as Capital Development Authority's official. File photo

An Accountability Court has acquitted Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir of all allegations levelled against him three years after his death, under the Ehtesab Ordinance 2021, his daughter tweeted on Tuesday.

The National Accountability Bureau was conducting multiple inquiries against Munir, including a corruption reference against him for illegally getting a plot in Islamabad’s Sector F-11 which the watchdog had filed a day before he committed suicide, according to a Dawn report.

Munir served in the Pakistan Army at different command and staff appointments as well as heading ISI’s KP sector. He also worked as Capital Development Authority's official in Islamabad.

He died by suicide on March 16, 2019 after leaving a letter addressed to the then chief justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa pleading his innocence and asking the CJP "to take notice of NAB’s officials conduct so that other government officials are not convicted for the crimes they had not committed.”

In the letter, Munir wrote the NAB had made his life "miserable" since 2017. In the last one year, the accountability watchdog initiated three investigations and two inquiries against him, he wrote.

“I am giving my life in the hope that you the honorable Chief Justice will bring positive changes in the system where incompetent people are playing with the life and honor of citizen in the name of accountability,” quoted Munir in Dawn report.

Responding on the judgement, Munir's daughter Meena tweeted that her father blamed the NAB for "torturing, humiliating his honour through a false case."

"RIP [rest in peace] baba! my pride," she added. Many people responded to her offering their sympathies and showing her support for his vindication.

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