ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday rejected the reports that the anti-graft watchdog wanted to arrest PML-Q leader and federal minister Moonis Elahi on instructions of someone.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the bureau said that there is no pending inquiry against Moonis Elahi and termed such reports as part of propaganda against the NAB.
The statement from the anti-corruption watchdog comes a day after PML-Q senior leader and former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi accused the government of forcing the National Accountability Bureau to target the PML-Q, including its leader Moonis Elahi, who is also a federal minister.
“The NAB officials said that there are no cases to be made against them so then they ordered the NAB that ‘if you keep on looking you will find something,” Pervez Elahi had said in his interview.
In 2021, the NAB closed two inquiries pending for the last 20 years against PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
