LAHORE, July 18: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, blasting Prime Minister Imran Khan and NAB over former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s arrest, lamented on Thursday PML-N leaders are being subjected to political vendetta in the name of accountability.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Shahbaz Sharif said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is being used as a tool for political revenge.
While condemning the arrest of former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, he said that the party’s vice president has been arrested on the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The opposition leader said that the NAB officials showed Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Whatsapp before arresting him when he asked for arrest warrants.
Talking a jibe PM Imran Khan, Shahbaz Sharif said that the prime minister has ruined country’s economy in 11 months, adding that those who ruined the country’s economy were hiding their failure behind the arrests being made in the name of corruption.
He said the credit of provision of gas to Bhikki and Balloki Power plant goes to the PML-N vice president and Abbasi had played key role in eradication of gas loadshedding.
The PML-N president went on to say that the PML-N and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) were being targeted of political revenge.
Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif had strongly condemned the arrest of former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a multi-billion-rupee case related to the award of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract.
The NAB has become [Prime Minister] Imran Khan’s tool that is being used for political victimisation, Shehbaz stated in a tweet, adding that such tactics could not discourage them [his party].-NNI
