ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister and a senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today urged the newly-elected government to dissolve the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and hold its employees accountable.
Talking to mediapersons, he said” “NAB’s employees looted and tortured people for years. It’s time they should be held accountable.”
PML(N) leader Abbasi lambasted the chairman of the bureau, accusing him of “being fully under control” of PTI Chairman and former PM Imran Khan and said that he used to take instructions from the previous government.”
He claimed that there was a minister in Imran Khan’s office who used to issue orders to the NAB chief regarding lodging fake cases, arresting people and defaming them. “This is your NAB chairman … who stayed quiet on Imran Khan’s corruption,” the PML-N leader added.
He also lamented that NAB couldn’t prove a single reference or inquiry against PML-N leaders in the last four years. “Why didn’t they investigate people who were involved in corruption worth billions [of rupees] and were sitting in the federal cabinet,” Abbasi demanded.
He said, “We are not taking revenge from anyone. We just want to expose the reality of NAB in front of the public. Accountability exists in the country but if you want to indulge in corruption, go to NAB.”
He also revealed that the government would move courts for the installation of cameras inside NAB courts so that the “public knows who is actually involved in corruption”.
“We won’t arrest anyone. Weak people like the NAB chairman will be the first person to arrested Imran Khan’s people. But this is not our way,” Abbasi pointed out, adding that the PML-N had always maintained its honour and respect in politics.
Whatever happened in the last four years, he reiterated, would be kept in front of the public.
