DLP Report
\nPESHAWAR
\nThe National Accountability Bureau Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (NAB-KP) on Tuesday summoned five close associates of Maulana Fazlur Rehman with the ongoing inquiry against the Jamiat Ulema Islam Fazal (JUI-F) chief and chairman Pakstan Democratic Movement (PDM) into assets beyond means.
\nThe anti-graft body issued call-up notices to people including Mufti Abrar Ahmed and Abdur Rauf \u2013 maternal uncle of Fazl \u2013 as, according to the notice issued by NAB, they would be investigated about the assets owned by the JUI-F chief.
\nMufti Abrar is Fazl\u2019s spokesperson while Abrar Ali Shah, Jalal Khan and Din Muhammad are the other three persons who have been summoned in this connection. NAB-KP had issued notices to two other persons in the recent weeks; however, they could not join the probe because of not receiving the call up summons.
\nEarlier in September, the anti-graft body had announced that an inquiry against the JUI-F chief was in progress \u2013 a move that has been described as pressure tactics by the opposition parties.
\nWhen reports appeared in the media, citing the notice, that Fazl had been summoned to the NAB office in Peshawar on October 1, a JUI-F leader had warned that hundreds of thousands of party workers would accompany their leader. However, the officials of the NAB later backtracked on the issue.
\nOn Monday, the PDM leaders signed a declaration and gave a deadline to Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down by January 31, after which they would announce a long march on February 1.
\nAddressing a joint press conference after a PDM meeting, Fazl, who is also the opposition alliance\u2019s president, said, \u201cIn case the government does not step down the date of the long march will be announced on February 1. \u201cWe ask the people of Pakistan to start preparations for the long march from today.\u201d
\n\u201cImran Khan has time till Jan 31 to resign (from the office). He is under pressure, that is why he is talking about NRO,\u201d he added.
\nThe JUI-F provincial spokesman Jalil Jan, while talking to Lead Pakistan, termed the NAB call up notices to Maulana close associates a routine activity purely based on political victimization.
\nHe said that party has nothing to do with people who have been summoned by NAB for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DLP Report PESHAWAR The National Accountability Bureau Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (NAB-KP) on Tuesday summoned five close associates of Maulana Fazlur Rehman with the ongoing inquiry against the Jamiat Ulema Islam Fazal (JUI-F) chief and chairman Pakstan Democratic Movement (PDM) into assets beyond means. The anti-graft body issued call-up notices to people including Mufti Abrar Ahmed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n