ISLAMABAD : Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president on Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday accused the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of forming an ‘unholy alliance’ to target opposition leaders.
The PML-N president was attending a session of the National Assembly after being produced in the house on orders of National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser.
“I am telling you without any fear that the NAB chairman had given orders for my arrest in July,” the opposition leader said while addressing the Parliament and added that prior to the by-elections, the anti-graft watchdog “implemented the order to affect the poll results”.
“Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) won the seats lost in the general elections within two months, which proves the elections were rigged,” claimed Shehbaz.
The former chief minister of Punjab stated that he had not come to the Lower House to defend himself, rather he wanted to inform the Parliament that “he had served the public within his capacity”.
Earlier on arrival at the NA, Shehbaz was taken to the opposition leader’s chamber and also met with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Shah.
Following Shehbaz’s arrival in Islamabad from Lahore, a five-member National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team accompanied the party chief to the Lower House from Islamabad airport, where security was placed on high alert prior to Shehbaz’s arrival.
Two officials from NAB Lahore accompanied Shehbaz from Lahore to Islamabad.
Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday directed NAB to produce the incarcerated leader of the opposition in every session of the assembly from October 17.
The production orders were issued after Qaiser announced the second session of the National Assembly to take place on the aforementioned date.
An accountability court on Tuesday extended for 14 days the remand of the PML-N president in the Ashiana Housing Scheme scam case.
The court, however, allowed Shehbaz two days transit remand so that he may attend the NA session scheduled on Wednesday to discuss his arrest on October 5.
