Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday moved a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), requesting it to remove National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry for his “deliberate criminal negligence” in not perusing corruption inquiry against the Sharif family.

PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry, filing the complaint under Article 209, also requested the SJC to issue directives for criminal trial of the NAB chief.

The complainant stated that instead of eradicating corruption, the NAB chief helped ‘criminals’ avoid trials despite substantial evidence against incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members.

He expressed apprehensions that if the NAB chairman was allowed to continue working, he would hamper the independent and impartial working of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) against the premier and his family, as one of its members would be from the NAB.

He stated that the NAB chief had failed to satisfy the five-judge bench that heard the Panamagate case on the query as to why an appeal was not filed in the top court against the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict wherein it was ordered that the reinvestigation could not be initiated against the Sharif family in Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.

The chairman had also stated before the court that he was waiting for orders of the ‘regulators’ to initiate the probe into Panama leaks, he said.

He said that Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, in his note in the Panama verdict, had also observed that the NAB chairman shamelessly defended the decision of not filing an appeal.