NA speaker issues Shehbaz’s production order to chair PAC meeting

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Thursday issued production orders of imprisoned President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif so that the latter could chair the meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), ARY News reported.

The leader of the opposition in the NA will chair the committee meeting which would continue from December 28 to January 1. The meeting, convened by Shehbaz, would review the objections made on audit about different ministries.

The parliamentary body has summoned senior officials of the National Accountability Bureau and Federal Investigation Agency, said sources.

The Auditor General of Pakistan and the officials of the power wing of the Ministry of Energy will brief the PAC in the meeting, they added.

Shehbaz Sharif was elected chairman of the parliament’s PAC in a meeting of the committee at the Parliament House on December 21.

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Arrest of Shehbaz Sharif

The National Accountability Bureau on Oct 5 arrested Shehbaz Sharif inside its Lahore office where he was summoned to record his statement in connection with the Punjab Saaf Pani Company case.

A combined investigation team of the country’s top anti-graft watchdog quizzed him for an hour over his alleged role in awarding contract to his “favourite firm” in violation of laws in the Ashiana-i-Iqbal housing project.

The Bureau later issued a statement, declaring that former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif has been arrested in the scam.

Shahbaz’s blue-eyed officers, Lahore Development Authority former director general Ahad Cheema and Fawad Hasan Fawad, are already in NAB custody in the Ashiana Housing case.

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