ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) should be abolished for the betterment of the country.
He suggested this on Friday while addressing a press conference along with senior PML-N leaders Ahsan Iqbal and Khurram Dastgir Khan.
“Many other people are going to be exposed in the Broadsheet scandal,” he said, adding that at present, Pakistan has the “most corrupt government in power”.
“Those appointed to track down corruption turned out to be the most corrupt in the country themselves,” he said. “Every job is being sold in the Punjab government today. How will corrupt people stop corruption?”
Shedding light on the appointment of former Supreme Court judge Azmat Saeed as the head of the Broadsheet Inquiry, Abbasi said that he “requests Azmat Saeed not to head the inquiry because he himself was part of NAB.”
“Don’t be a part of the deal which puts the country’s honour at stake,” he said.
Abbasi further said that the Broadsheet scandal is not about probing corruption worth a few million rupees but it is the “story of destroying politics in the country.” He also urged the PTI government to make the Broadsheet LLC inquiry transparent and share its findings with the public.
