LAHORE, June 1: President Pervez Musharraf has made the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) a “bargaining tool” for his political objectives. Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf information secretary Omar Sarfraz Cheema told a news conference here on Friday that President Musharraf first had used NAB to form ruling Muslim League and now on his order it had withdrawn a case against PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto in a Swiss court after spending millions of dollars on pursuing it.

In the wake of this development, he said the PTI hoped that the PPP would not strike a deal with the president and the party should reject the government’s propaganda and play its role in formation of grad opposition alliance against the government’s anti-people polices.

Mr Cheema, flanked by Shabbir Sial, Saloni Bokhari, Jamshed Butt, Shaikh Mujib and Amin Zaki, condemned the government’s attempt to control media.

He said the party chief was leaving for London on Saturday (today) in connection with filing a case against MQM chief Altaf Husain.