Staff Reporter
Lahore
Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla on Sunday reaffirmed his announcement that the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will be summoned to the Senate to answer questions about the watchdog’s alleged illegal actions.
Speaking to reporters in Lahore, he said “production warrants” will be issued for the NAB chairman if he refuses to appear in the upper house. After NAB froze more than three million shares of different companies registered in Mandviwala’s name with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan in connection with the fake accounts case last month, the Senate deputy chairman has vowed to expose the bureau internationally. He earlier announced that a special session of the Senate will be requisitioned to take up a privilege motion that he has submitted against NAB Chairman Javed Iqbal.
On Sunday, he conceded that it was a “failure” on the part of political parties to not have amended the National Accountability Ordinance. He said businessmen had nothing to do with NAB but it issued notices to people for even selling a private plot or importing something.
