PTI Chairman Imran Khan has submitted a written response to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case. The ex-premier had been summoned by the graft watchdog earlier today.

In the written response, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, said that it was not possible for him to appear before NAB Rawalpindi and join the investigation as he was in Lahore and in the process of obtaining bail in a multitude of cases.

Imran went on to say that all the allegations made by the graft watchdog in the call-up notice were “absolutely false, frivolous and concocted and based on deliberate misconception of law and facts, and baseless conjectures and surmises”.

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