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Sukkur
Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwala on Monday said although politicians and businessmen were regularly subjected to media trials, it was now the turn of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officers to be tried in the media.
Speaking during a Senate session, he repeated the allegation that people were losing their lives due to alleged excesses of the accountability watchdog.
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.
Mandviwala said he had met the wife and daughter of retired brigadier Asad Munir, who committed suicide in 2019, who described the difficulties faced by the deceased before his death.
The body of Munir, who was facing multiple inquiries by NAB, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the study room of his apartment located in the highly guarded Diplomatic Enclave in Islamabad. He worked both with the military and the government.
Mandviwalla said he found out that Munir had survived the first suicide attempt and later hung himself. He said Munir’s family had told him “what happened with his life since the NAB investigation started”.
The Senate deputy chairman stressed that the government as well as NAB should take notice of the issue in order to stop “mud-slinging” against people.
“Politicians are smeared every day; it has no effect on us and we will face it, but people cannot tolerate. People are committing suicides, leaving the country.
