The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to appear before it on February 13 in a case related to a joint venture, JV Opal 255.

The NAB sources said that the bureau had summoned Bilawal for recording his statement before the investigators with respect to a case against Bilawal related to JV Opal 225. The bureau has asked PPP chairperson to bring all the relevant record of the said company from 2008 to 2019.

The sources said that the company was a joint venture between the Zardari Group (Pvt) Ltd of which Bilawal was a director and a large real estate business. They said that following the approval of the NAB chairperson the inquiry of the case had been converted into an investigation.