ISLAMABAD, June 27: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday sought help from the police to assist in producing Shehbaz Sharif before NAB Lahore in the Saaf Paani case.
Shehbaz has been summoned on July 5 to appear before the accountability watchdog. NAB reached out to the capital city police officer Lahore and directed the relevant authorities to ensure that Shehbaz appears before the bureau.
NAB will also direct the SHO 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 after Raja’s nomination as the PML-N’s candidate for NA-59 and the PP-10 constituencies of Rawalpindi.
NAB also took into custody another accused in the case, Waseem Ajmal Chaudhry, who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the company.-Agencies
