Shahbaz Sharif has grilled the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for including his name and his elder brother’s in the list of 150 politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen being investigated for mega corruption.
Even if there was no Sharif family residence in the area, Rs130 million was allocated by the Punjab government for the construction of roads and the laying of gas pipelines in that area in the annual development budget. Mr Sharif may remember that Ittefaq Foundries assets were handed over to a three-member committee on the order of Justice Malik Qayyum of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to sell the assets of Ittefaq Group to recover the loan amount of about Rs2.58 billion.
He may also recall that when his elder brother was prime minister in 1998, the Ittefaq Foundries were handed over to the LHC. Why were not the foundries directly handed over to banks? Why did it take 17 years to clear all hurdles and have claims and cases of other families who were stakeholders in Ittefaq Foundries?I request Mr Sharif to ask the FBR to investigate what taxes it has collected on the sales of steel scraps, and what income taxes are to be paid out of the sales of lands. I also suggest him to sue the NAB for defaming him.
S. T. Hussain
pk.shafaqna.com
