ISLAMABAD: An additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) of Islamabad on Tuesday issued a bailable arrest warrant for the director general of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) retired Maj Shahzad Saleem in the case of alleged harassment of a woman identified as Tayyaba Gul.

ADSJ Syed Faizan Haider Gillani issued bailable arrest for Saleem over his absence during hearing of the complaint filed by Gul.

The court directed DG NAB to appear in person on March 29.

Gul alleged that former NAB chairman Javed Iqbal and Shahzad harassed her and she filed a complaint before the Prime Minister Office (PMO).

However, the PM Office also secured personal gains by blackmailing the NAB hierarchy by misusing a video of the then-NAB chief filmed by her.

In July last year, testifying before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Tayyaba Gul stated that former principal secretary Azam Khan and former special assistant to the prime minister Tahir A. Khan invited her for a meeting after she lodged a complaint on Prime Minister’s Citizen Portal.

In the complaint, she had accused the ex-NAB chairman of sexual harassment and also attached some screenshots from secretly recorded footage.

She informed PAC that Azam Khan and Tahir Khan asked for the video and assured her that they would take action against Javed Iqbal. However, the video was aired on Khan’s television channel later on.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2023