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Murad Warns Strong Protest Over Agha Siraj Arrest

KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Shah, slammed the manner in which National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials behaved with family members of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani after his arrest and said PPP will stage a protest in Sindh Assembly.

He made an announcement during the press conference after attending the PPP parliamentary party meeting.

Shah questioned why a NAB team felt the need to “raid” Durrani’s house after his arrest if they already had evidence against him and had arrested the speaker.

Durrani was arrested by NAB authorities from outside a hotel in Islamabad yesterday. According to NAB officials, the PPP leader is facing an inquiry for accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income as well as for allegedly embezzling public funds.

Following his arrest on Tuesday, NAB had obtained three-day transit remand of the PPP leader.

Chief Minister Shah today alleged that NAB officials had “scaled the walls” of Durrani’s house and “broken the gates to the residence when there was no male member of the family present at home, just Durrani’s wife, three daughters and daughter-in-law”.

He alleged that the people who entered Durrani’s house remained there for over five hours. Shah said he had tried to speak to the NAB chairman to defuse the situation but was unsuccessful.

While addressing the NAB Chairman, Shah said his subordinates were ruining his name as well as that of the institution.

He noted that the NAB chairman had remained a respectable judge of the Supreme Court and knew about the law and added that the chairman should fix his own house first.

On the other hand, acting speaker Reehana Lughari has summoned Sindh assembly session tomorrow, Friday, as she also issued production orders of the arrested Agha Siraj Durrani.

The orders have also been served to NAB and interior minister for the production of Durrani in Sindh assembly session.