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Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik. — Photo by APP/File

KARACHI: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik on Thursday filed a petition be a party to the Arsalan Iftikhar case.

Advocate on record Abdul Shakoor filed the petition on his behalf.

A Joint investigation team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is currently investigating the allegations leveled against the Chief Justice’s son Arsalan Iftikhar by the property tycoon and former Bahria town Chief  Malik Riaz.

Riaz had accused Arsalan of taking millions of rupees to influence his father's (CJ) court in the property related cases against the former Bahria town chief.

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