The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday asked former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to appear before it on Friday (February 8) in a scandal related to the award of liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract.
Sources privy to the development said senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been summoned by the accountability watchdog’s Rawalpindi chapter. Abbasi’s statement as minister for petroleum will be recorded by the bureau, sources added.
The NAB is inquiring into a case registered in 2015 against Abbasi for awarding an LNG import contract which caused a potential $2 billion loss to the national exchequer. Accusing the then minister for petroleum of misusing his authority, the case was registered on the complaint of Shahid Sattar, an energy expert and former member of the Planning Commission and the SSGC board of directors.
Published in Daily Times, February 7th 2019.
