LAHORE: PML-N Secretary-General Ahsan Iqbal sees 2020 as year of change and polls.

Talking to media at the Services Hospital here on Thursday after undergoing surgery for a bullet wound he had suffered during an attack by a fanatic in 2018 election campaign, he professed that dark time would be over soon as 2020 was the year of change and elections.

In the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Narowal Sports City case, he challenged the anti-corruption top watchdog to prove any kind of kickbacks, embezzlement or commission of even single penny against him since 1993 when he for the first time held any public office.

He claimed that his assets had decreased instead of increasing since he came into politics.

Published in Dawn, January 3rd, 2020

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