GUJRAT: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and senior party leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will visit the Lahore office of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Nov 6 for recording their statements in an “old case” in response to the notices served on them by the bureau.

A spokesman for the PML-Q told Dawn on Wednesday that the party leadership had always showed respect for the national institutions, adding that both the senior leaders would visit the NAB’s Lahore office as per the notices.

He explained that the notices had been served on both the leaders in an old case which had already been investigated back in 2000 and nothing could be proved against them at that time. He wondered why the “already settled” cases were being opened.

The NAB had summoned former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his cousin ex-Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Nov 6 (Monday) in a case of “misuse of authority” and “having assets beyond known sources of income”.

The Lahore NAB had sent forms to both the PML-Q leaders to get their assets’ details.

The case against the Chaudhrys was among the 179 “mega corruption cases” which the NAB had submitted to the Supreme Court in 2015.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2017