ISLAMABAD - PML-N Secretary Information Marriyum Aurangzeb has said NAB’s recent press release against Nawaz Sharif was a desperate plea by Chairman NAB for an extension. 

In a statement Marriyum said this press release was an extension plea because 80 percent of it was focused against Nawaz Sharif which was Imran Khan’s political agenda. She pointed out that despite 35-year-long political career, service as the chief minister and thrice as an elected prime minister, not a single penny of public money corruption was proven against Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz and Shehbaz made the country a nuclear power, installed 14,000 megawatts electricity, brought CPEC, built motorways, mass transit projects of metros, hospitals, schools, colleges, universities and still this vengeful government could not even accuse him of a penny worth of corruption in public money. 

Meanwhile this PTI government did nothing but robbed people’s vote, sugar, flour, medicines, electricity, gas, wheat, LNG, and petrol. They drove millions below the poverty line and unemployed millions all while crushing them under skyrocketing inflation and taxes, she said. 

The press release states that Nawaz Sharif’s assets were being used as recovery under that tainted decision of the NAB Court that was taken by blackmailing judges with videos, the decision which was a product of bribing of judges in Serena Hotel. She said the case over which the press release was issued has still not attained finality and is still subjudice. 

“This press release is not a document released by an institution but by an instrument of political victimisation by Imran Khan who had been running the most vicious political victimisation campaign in the history of the country. This press release is an expression of the desperation and frustration of the NAB-NIAZI Alliance that had obliterated all legalities and due process but still got nothing but embarrassing shut up calls from courts against PML-N leaders”, she said. 

She said that NAB statement boasts of recovering Rs 538 billion rupees of public money but gives zero details. She demanded that every single detail of recovered money and the amount spent must be made public. She said the people of Pakistan have a right to know that how much money was made by Imran’s touts, frontmen and agents in all this fiasco.

The former information minister questioned, “Why doesn’t NAB act so rigorously and aggressively over Rs 450 billion theft of public flour. Why does the NAB Chairman turn a blind eye to over Rs 800 billion theft in sugar? Why doesn’t he question how millions were spent on Imran’s Zaman Park residence and the illegally regularisation of the Bani Gala Palace? Why is he blindfolded over Rs 400 billion theft in LNG, the helicopter and the foreign funding case. Why is the NAB Chairman mum over how virtually every transfer, posting, registration of an FIR, transfer of property, cabinet ministeries, admission in schools and hospitals had become a function of bribery”. 

Marriyum lashed out over the Broadsheet case saying Imran made NAB his agent, frontman and tout in which the nation paid Rs 250 million, Rs 9 billion and was still in debt of Rs 300 million legal fee. She demanded that every detail of this case be made public and a press release be issued. She said this circus won’t be allowed to run anymore and the people of Pakistan won’t be befooled by diversions.