The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to lodge another case against Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif and his sons Hamza Shehbaz and Salman Shehbaz over charges of transferring assets worth millions of rupees abroad using illegal hawala/hundi system.
As part of an ongoing investigation, the NAB officials have already recorded statements of the witnesses.
Besides, the NAB has decided to file a reference against Hamza Shehbaz for his alleged role being chief executive of the Ramzan Sugar Mills to get constructed a bridge facilitating his mills out of the public money in Chiniot.
Former Punjab law minister and PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah while accusing NAB of being biased said if former Punjab chief minister and party president Shehbaz Sharif can be arrested then why Prime Minister Imran Khan and Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak cannot be.
Talking to media in Faisalabad, he claimed that the anti-graft watchdog is taking action only against his party leaders. “We will present our concerns to the NAB chairman,” he said, and added that the Sharif family is a fighting legal battle and will succeed.
The PML-N leader went on to say that Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry accuses Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif of corruption but has not given any statement regarding Aleema Khan’s properties. “When PML-N government announced amnesty scheme, Imran Khan said whoever would take advantage of this scheme would be a thief and dacoit but Aleema Khan has been caught red-handed taking advantage of the same scheme.”
Published in Daily Times, January 14th 2019.
