ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) summoned him as a reaction to his speech in which he had criticised the government’s “ineffective strategies” regarding coronavirus in the country.
“I have been a guest of NAB for 77 days, [but] today for the first time the anti-corruption watchdog asked for my tax details,” he told reporters outside NAB Rawalpindi.
The PML-N leader added, “If you stay at home, NAB does not say anything, however, if you give [two] speeches or criticise the government, the bureau takes immediate notice.”
Maintaining that accountability should be according to the rule of law and not to suppress anyone’s political views, the former prime minister said, “I don’t know who Shahzad Akbar is. Maybe Imran Khan has created a new institution [of his own].”
NAB had summoned the former prime minister and his son in the LNG scam on Thursday. The Bureau has already filed a supplementary reference in an accountability court on misuse of authority against them.
