ISLAMABAD: The accountability court will indict Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal on 7th December in the Narowal Sports City Complex reference.
An accountability court in Islamabad heard the Narowal Sports City Complex reference. All the accused including PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal appeared in the court. The accountability court judge asked the accused to provide copies of the reference so that the date of the indictment could be fixed. After which the court decided to indict Ahsan Iqbal in the next hearing.
NAB filed a corruption reference against Ahsan Iqbal in the accountability court. The text of the reference said that Ahsan Iqbal misused his powers in the Narowal Sports City project.
Ahsan Iqbal spent the federal government’s funds on the provincial project. In the reference, former DG Sports Board Akhtar Nawaz Ganjira is also named as the accused.
Talking to the media after the hearing, Ahsan Iqbal said that he had reappeared today in connection with the Narowal Sports City trial and these are the retaliatory actions due to development works till 2018.
He said that the person who contributed to this development is being imprisoned today and Pakistan is being ridiculed all over the world. Institutions are subordinate to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Ahsan Iqbal said that baseless allegations were made against us and if building a sports city in the country has become a crime then he will continue to commit this crime.
Ahsan Iqbal misused his powers as planning minister, the NAB claimed. He illegally increased the cost of the Narowal Sports project and the cost of Rs. 3.5 crore project reached Rs. 100 million. Permission to increase costs was not sought from the Central Development Working Party.
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According to NAB, the PML-N leader misused his powers to build a sports city complex in which Rs. 6 billion was allegedly embezzled. The Sports City Complex was built on 44 acres just 800 meters from the Indian border, for which a special amount was set aside in the PSDP. All funds for the project were spent through the Pakistan Sports Board.
