Pakistan, July 11 -- The federal anti-corruption court in Karachi has acquitted Senate Chairman and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in nine cases related to the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) mega corruption scandal. Announcing its verdict on the nine cases, the court ordered Gilani's acquittal. He appeared in court alongside other co-accused.
It is worth noting that the FIA had registered a total of 26 cases in the TDAP corruption scandal. Gilani had already been acquitted in three of them earlier, and with this decision, he has now been cleared in a total of 12 cases.
Investigations into the TDAP scandal began in 2009, and the FIA started registering cases in 2013. Gilani was named as an accused in the final cha...