LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team grilled Nawaz Sharif in jail for alleged misuse of vehicles purchased for a conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) during his stint as premier.
The two-member NAB team quizzed the former prime minister for two-and-a-half-hours in Kot Lakhpat jail, where he is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al Azizia Mills corruption case.
A source told media, that Nawaz Sharif insisted upon being given a questionnaire, to which he would reply with the help of his legal counsel. “However, NAB officials engaged him in one or another question related to his (previous) government’s decision to purchase, without paying import duties, 34 bulletproof vehicles from Germany for guests to the Saarc conference,” he said. These vehicles were allegedly used by Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, according to NAB.
Taking exception to the NAB’s grilling of her father (in this case), Maryam Nawaz said: “Nawaz Sharif used bulletproof cars in the capacity of a prime minister. On the other hand, Imran Khan, who was not even part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) government (2013-18), misused its helicopter. No action has been taken against this fake prime minister so far as he appears to be above the law?”
