LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan has demanded that PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif’s name should be put on the Exit Control List (ECL) during the NAB investigations.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, Mr Chohan said Shahbaz Sharif had modernised the subject of corruption, money laundering and telegraphic transfers (TTs) but he had no answer to the questions posed by the NAB and SAPM Shahzad Akbar. He said the PML-N leaders were baffled by their head’s corruption and had nothing to defend. “I don’t think that Shahbaz Sharif will be able to explain the transactions done through Masroor Anwar as well as Khan and Nisar Trading,” he said.

The information minister said the opposition leader had hidden himself as the government started across-the-board accountability. He said the Sharif family was doing corruption and money-laundering through personal employees, fake companies, cash boys and illegal use of government resources. He said the government had complete record of kickbacks given to Shahbaz Sharif and added that Prime Minister Imran Khan had repeatedly asserted that no one would be given the NRO.

TIGER FORCE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar on Sunday called on Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and briefed him on the Tiger Force in Punjab.

Published in Dawn, May 18th, 2020