Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf expressed his deep concerns over recent approval given to Ishaq Dar by NAB on possession of illegal assets and said that this decision puts NAB's performance institution under question. He pleaded the Supreme Court to intervene and take control of NAB.
In a statement issued by Central Media Department PTI, Imran Khan stressed that Pakistan would have retrieved its billions of dollars stashed in off-shores companies only if accountability institutions like NAB had been doing their work earnestly.
The PTI chief asserted that NAB failed to carry out the inquiry against the federal minister partially. He said that the case was reflected in 179 cases of mega corruption and the same list was filed by NAB itself in the Supreme Court, but now it has been closed as NAB says it could not find any evidence. It is important to note that the inquiry is dropped at a time when it was in the second stage of investigations and a reference was in process to be filed against it in the court.
He said that NAB should answer why the inquiry lingered onto 15 years if it did not manage to gather any evidence. He asked why the time and resources of taxpayers' money were wasted for 15 years if inquiry did not achieve anything.
He said that it is beyond comprehension that how can NAB close down a case when it is already in the court for hearing. The PTI chief said that at such time, when reports of corruptions in Panama Leaks are already making waves, clean chits to high profile cases by NAB are shameful. He also cited the former chairman NAB Fasih Bukahari claim that in Pakistan 12 billion rupees are wasted into corruption on daily basis. He said that PML-N is behind the pressure to drop the charges against its minister. "These are routine tactics of PML-N to pressurise institutions for its political gains", he added.-PR
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