ISLAMABAD: Ahsan Iqbal, Secretary General of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was arrested on Monday by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
According to NAB spokesman, the authority arrested the PML-N leader in relation to the Narowal Sports City Complex case.
Ahsan Iqbal will be presented before an accountability court on Tuesday for physical remand.
According to the NAB, the medical check-up of the PML-N leader will be done today.
The NAB Rawalpindi chapter had summoned the PML-N leader in relation to the case.
In July, the NAB had begun the investigation of the complex that has been raised with a whopping amount of over Rs3,000 million.
The NAB investigation team also visited the Narowal Sports City project last month to get a record.
The mega venture was one of the primary projects developed under former minister for planning Ahsan Iqbal during the PML-N’s tenure.
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, while reacting harshly to the arrest of the senior PML-N leader, said that Iqbal had a surgery three days ago.
She said that the surgery was related to the incident last year in May, where an assailant shot at then interior minister in his own constituency, Narowal. Iqbal’s bone was fractured after he received a bullet in his right shoulder.
A visibly enraged Marriyum Aurangzeb addressed a press conference today, saying that the party will continue calling out the incompetence of the incumbent government, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
She said Ahsan Iqbal never commissioned the Narowal project as it was launched in the Pakistan People’s Party tenure. “It was a dormant project that Ahsan Iqbal revived under the PML-N’s rule.”
Senior PML-N leader Talal Chaudhry spoke to Geo News, reacting to Ahsan Iqbal’s arrest. He alleged that the government is trying to control the opposition and arresting leaders through the NAB.
“Ahsan Iqbal knew he might be arrested but he stood by his stance,” said Chaudhry, adding that there is a nexus ‘between Imran Khan and NAB’.
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