Daily Times

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday sought help from the police for producing Shehbaz Sharif before NAB Lahore in the Saaf Paani case, a private TV channel reported.

Shehbaz has been summoned on July 5 to appear before the accountability watchdog. NAB reached out to the Lahore capital city police officer and directed the relevant authorities to ensure that Shehbaz appears before the bureau. NAB will also direct the SHO concerned to submit a report of the notice served to Shehbaz. The report will be submitted before July 4 with details of Shehbaz’s appearance and delivery of notice. The notice will be sent to Shehbaz’s official address in Model Town.

On Monday NAB arrested Engineer Qamarul Islam Raja – former chairman of Punjab government’s Saaf Pani Company – for his alleged role in awarding contracts to ‘favourites’. He is also the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) pick in the general elections against the party’s disgruntled leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan from Rawalpindi’s NA-59 constituency. Interestingly, the arrest took place within 24 hours of Raja’s nomination as the PML-N candidate for NA-59 and the PP-10 constituencies of Rawalpindi.

Meanwhile, PML-N’s former finance minister Miftah Ismail has been summoned by NAB Karachi on July 5. Senator Rubina Khalid was summoned on Wednesday at NAB Rawalpindi. The bureau has authorised complaint verification against Senator Rana Mehmoodul Hassan for having accumulated assets beyond known sources of income.

Published in Daily Times, June 28^th 2018.