LAHORE: The PPP has advised the ruling PTI not to take credit for arrest of Aleem Khan by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) but focus on ‘transparent investigation’ of the cases.

“The issue of NAB case against Aleem Khan is of transparent investigation and the government must help NAB in this respect instead of taking credit for what the Bureau has done,” Punjab PPP President Qamar Zaman Kaira said.

He said in a statement here that the NAB also needed to continue its proceedings without coming under any pressure. He said they had already been demanding that all accountability institutions should treat all the political parties and figures equally and that making accountability a political tool would be unfortunate.

Urging the government to focus on issues of the masses instead of character assassination of the rivals, the PPP leader told the PTI leadership that none succeeded in eliminating one’s political opponents and they too should remove their misunderstanding in this respect.

Meanwhile, party’s provincial general secretary Chaudhry Manzoor alleged that work on a ‘deal’ was being done on a war footing for sending Nawaz Sharif abroad on the excuse of his medical treatment.

In a statement, he claimed that the former prime minister, a convict in a corruption case currently under treatment at a Lahore health facility for heart and kidney diseases, would be bailed out and allowed to travel abroad.

He said this deal too would be kept secret and unveiled in bits and pieces like the one struck between Musharraf and Nawaz back in 2000.

Published in Dawn, February 7th, 2019