ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has clarified on Wednesday that it would never arrest anyone merely at the whim of a minister.
A day earlier the information minister Fawad Chaudhry had told reporters at the residence of PTI’s Haleem Adil Shaikh in Karachi that he was surprised as to why NAB was not arresting Asif Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah despite the fact that their names had appeared in the joint investigation team (JIT) report as “key suspects”.
“It’s quite unfortunate that the performance of NAB is not satisfactory and moving at a slow pace,” he had said, adding that, “Zardari and Faryal Talpur have held the people of Sindh hostage while Murad Ali Shah facilitated all their wrongdoings despite holding a key office in the province and all this is documented in the JIT report.
Moreover, the bureau announced it has decided to write to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to acquire the content of news items pertaining to the “statements of a minister regarding a case being followed by NAB”.
The watchdog was referring to Fawad Chaudhry as recently he had said on multiple occasions that NAB should withdraw the case against Prime Minister Imran Khan and that it should also seek an apology in this regard.
