Summary 'Sharjeel Memon was arrested on legitimate grounds with court warrant'
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – NAB Chairman Justice (Retd.) Javed Iqbal severely reacted to political point scoring with regard to Sharjeel Memon’s arrest and condemned the propoganda.
After Sharjeel Memon was arrested, Senior leadership in PPP including Khurshid Shah, Started criticising NAB for its "bias" against PPP.
Opposition leader Khursheed Shah said Wednesday that the arrest of Sharjeel Memon stained the image of NAB itself. While criticising the detention, he said that those who have non-bailable arrest warrants get bail within an hour. Khurshid Shah had also suspected as to why the arrest was carried out in that way and whether this was meant to be a message.
On the other hand, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tweeted that laws are different for different people, reflecting that PPP was being discriminated.
One land two laws. One for Sharifs and another for @sharjeelinam #NAB #hypocrisy
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) October 23, 2017
Rejecting the notion of unjust detentions, Chairman NAB said that Memon was arrested on legitimate grounds when arrest warrant was issued from the accounatability court and stressed that accountability protocol is strictly without bias and within the realm of the law.
Former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Memon was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday evening, after hours of being held in court. Memon was taken into custody just as he left the court and was shifted to NAB’s headquarter in Sindh.
Hearing the Rs5.76 billion corruption case, filed by NAB, SHC Chief Justice Ahmed Ali Shaikh dismissed the request of the suspects including Sharjeel Memon, to extend bail in their case.
On the other hand, a NAB spokesperson said that no inquiry team has visited London with regard to the reference against Sharif family. However, the spokesperson remained ambiguous on the issue of evidence gathering against the Sharifs in foreign lands.
With regard to the president of National Bank of Pakistan, The spokesperon informed that NAB will direct the Foreign Ministry to not remove Saeed Ahmed’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL) as the president of NBP is wanted for many cases.
