Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday arrested PML-N leader Khawaja Asif in the assets beyond means case.
PML-N leader was arrested from Ahsan Iqbal’s house in Islamabad.
NAB spokesperson Nawazish Ali Asim has confirmed that Asif has been arrested in a case of assets beyond means. The arrest was made soon after a PML-N meeting — held to decide whether the party’s lawmaker should resign from the Senate or not — concluded.
Moreover, PML-N lawmaker Hina Parvez Butt said that she condemned the arrest and warned Prime Minister Imran Khan that his “days in office were numbered”. Meanwhile, reacting to the arrest, PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz lashed out at the PTI-led government, saying that NAB is working hand in gloves with the incumbent regime for “political engineering”. “I request the judiciary to take notice of political engineering being carried out by NAB as people are looking towards you for justice,” she said while addressing a media. She warned NAB to immediately release Khawaja Asif or “else the matters will get out of control”.
