KARACHI: An accountability court reissued on Saturday warrant for the arrest of former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon in a corruption reference.

The former minister, along with the then provincial information secretary, Zulfiqar Ali Shalwani, deputy director of information department Anita Baloch and others, have been booked for allegedly committing corruption in 2013 in awarding advertisements of the provincial government’s awareness campaigns in electronic media involving over Rs5 billion.

The court issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Sharjeel Memon till Jan 14.

Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2017