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The government and opposition traded barbs over the arrest of Khawaja Saad Rafique and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) during a heated National Assembly session on Wednesday.
Speaking on the floor, former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said party members are ready if NAB is going to be used to pressurise the opposition.
“Opposition leader [Shehbaz Sharif] was arrested and till date a case could not be formed against him. Accountability institutions are being used to exert pressure on opposition parties,” Abbasi said.
“We are not against accountability but the way pressure is being exerted on opposition is against democratic laws and the Parliament. Saad Rafique has said on the assembly floor that he is not related to the case,” the former premier asserted.
