Federal Ombudsman Secretariat for Protection Against Harassment Saturday issued notices to former National Accountability Bureau chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal and others in the Tayyaba Gul harassment case and record their statements on January 16.
The notices were issued to Iqbal and 11 others as FOSPAH Chairperson Fauzia Viqar conducted the hearing of a case filed by Gul back in 2022, wherein she had complained of being subjected to sexual harassment and rape by the former NAB head and other officials of the anti-graft watchdog.
In her complaint, Gul — whose controversial video with the ex-NAB chairman had surfaced in 2019 — had levelled serious allegations against Iqbal accusing him of sexual harassment during her visit to the anti-graft body’s office — an allegation vehemently denied by the former NAB head.
“When I was presented before Director General NAB Shehzad Saleem, my clothes were torn off upon his directions and my body had to sustain bruises because of the search,” she said. “Javed Iqbal would tell me that he will destroy my life within a minute,” Gul had told the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee. Claiming that she met the then-NAB chief during a meeting regarding missing persons, Gul lamented that she was allegedly filmed and the videos were shown to her husband.
