Bilawal refuses to appear before NAB on Tuesday
According to details, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) head Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will not be appearing tomorrow (Tuesday) before NAB despite being summoned.
NAB Rawalpindi has summoned Bilawal Zardari for investigations in the fake accounts case.
Read: NAB summons Bilawal Bhutto on Dec 24 in fake accounts case
According to Bilawal’s lawyer, Farooq H Naek, he has submitted his written reply to NAB’s question and will not be appearing before it. Bilawal is however, in Islamabad.
NAB had rejected the previous reply the PPP chairperson had submitted to it questions. It warned him of action under the NAB Ordinance if he does not appear before it, but he has decide not to appear.
Bilawal was the CEO of the Zardari Group in 2011 but he says he was not in Pakistan from 2011 to 2012 and therefore, he could not be the CEO.
Several political leaders have been arrested after not appearing before NAB when summoned. Some of the most prominent include former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who was arrested on the motorway, and PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, who was arrested while visiting her incarcerated father at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.
Both leaders had only missed a single NAB summons.
