Calls allegations false, politically motivated
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan submitted a written response to the NAB pertaining to the Al-Qadir Trust case, terming all the allegations made by the graft watchdog in the call-up notice as “absolutely false, frivolous and concocted and based on deliberate misconception of law and facts, and baseless conjectures and surmises”.
In 20-point written response, Imran Khan said that it was not possible for him to appear in person before NAB Rawalpindi and join the investigation as he was in Lahore and in the process of obtaining bail in a multitude of cases. Imran Khan, in his five-page response, said that no case of corruption or corrupt practice was made rather the entire object of initiating the Inquiry and Investigation in the case was politically motivated and, to say the least, is based on facts extrenous to law.
PTI Chairman stated that the inquiry report regarding the allegations did not provide his hitherto. It was stated that at the time of enquiry, he only received notice of summons, which did not include any details of the allegations made in the inquiry. Imran Khan stated that he had only received on call up notice during the entire inquiry.
Khan also told NAB that as per it laws it was bound to copy of the report of inquiry immediately if it was converted into an investigation to him for defence which it did not do so. PTI Chairman further stated: “From the facts and circumstance narrated hereinabove it is abundantly clear that not only you had violated the provision of law by not providing me a copy of the Inquiry report as mandated by the proviso to Section 18(c) of NAO, 1999.”
Therefore, he requested that before serving him a notice, a copy of the said Inquiry report should be immediately forwarded to him at his address at Zaman Park, or, it should be furnished to his legal counsel in Islamabad.
