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PESHAWAR: An accountability court has acquitted 12 people, including a former provincial minister, on the charge of causing Rs355.2 million loss to the exchequer through the illegal award of a mining contract to a woman schoolteacher in 2009. Judge Naveed Ahmad Khan ruled that the prosecution badly failed to prove the charge of the misuse of authority and corruption and corrupt practices against the accused.He added that it was also not established that the accused had facilitated the award of t