LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned former special assistant to the former prime minister on accountability, Mirza Shahzad Akbar on October 21 in a case pertaining to possessing assets beyond means.
According to media reports, In June this year, a news agency alleged that Akbar had formed a group and bought properties worth “billions of rupees” under the garb of making the accountability process better.
However, Shehzad Akbar, denied the allegations and issued a clarification while saying that the news published against him by a news agency was “baseless”.
He also warned media publications to avoid publishing such news, else he would take legal action.
It is pertinent to be mentioned here that Shehzad Akbar is allegedly living in London following his abrupt departure to Dubai in April after his name was removed from the stop list on the Islamabad High Court’s orders.
The former advisor to the then PM Imran Khan, has tendered his resignation in January this year, just a few months ahead of the ouster of the later through a no-confidence motion.
Akbar was later placed on the stop list, barring him from travelling abroad without permission, by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in April.
He then approached the IHC for the removal of their names from the list, after which the court dismissed the travel ban and suspended the FIA’s notification.
