LAHORE, Sept 20: An accountability court on Wednesday allowed PPP secretary-general Jehangir Badr to proceed abroad for 15 days to take part in a fund raising campaign for the earthquake victims.

The court gave him permission on his plea that he was directed by his party to go out of the country for the fund raising campaign.

His request was opposed by Advocate Asad Manzoor Butt of the National Accountability Bureau on the ground that a person facing corruption charges could not be allowed to leave the country on a work which was purely political in nature.

Mr Badr is facing the charges of amassing assets disproportionate to known sources of his income as the oil and gas minister between 1988 and 1990. His counsel submitted that he had been allowed to visit abroad on a number of occasions and he returned home within the period stipulated by the court. —Correspondent