Moonis Elahi’s arrest ‘out of question’: NAB

The Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday stated that the arrest of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief and Federal Water Assets Minister Moonis Elahi was “out of the query”.

In response to the anti-graft watchdog’s spokesperson, no inquiry was pending in opposition to Elahi at current, including that NAB had additionally issued an evidence yesterday on this connection.

He clarified that NAB has nothing to do with the no-confidence movement and the establishment all the time believed in performing its duties in accordance with the Structure and legislation.

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“NAB doesn’t belong to any political social gathering, group or particular person however to the state of Pakistan. No NAB official has something to do with the no-confidence movement and can by no means have,” the spokesperson additional stated.

Earlier within the day, Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak denied issuing any assertion in opposition to the ruling social gathering’s main ally PML-Q or its senior chief Speaker Punjab Meeting Pervaiz Elahi.

“I’ve not issued any assertion on media in opposition to PMLQ or Pervaiz Elahi. I am in touch with all our allies every day,” he wrote on his Twitter deal with.

To this, Moonis Elahi, sharing a media report, had requested Khattak to make clear his assertion. Responding to which, the defence minister stated that he didn’t give any such assertion to the media.

Moonis, additional replying to Khattak’s assertion, thanked the defence minister for the clarification.

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On Saturday, Inside Minister Sheikh Rashid and Moonis Elahi exchanged allegations within the wake of the no-confidence movement tabled within the Nationwide Meeting by the opposition.

Addressing a information convention in Quetta, Rashid informed reporters that he was not the one “blackmailing the federal government” with 5 votes for the publish of the chief minister.

When requested about 5 votes of the Balochistan Awami Occasion, Rashid replied that he was speaking about Punjab, not Balochistan.

He was apparently referring to experiences that the PML-Q – a key ally of the PTI each within the Centre and Punjab – was demanding of the federal government to switch Chief Minister Usman Buzdar with its senior social gathering chief and provincial meeting speaker Pervaiz Elahi in return for foiling the opposition’s no-confidence movement within the decrease home of parliament.

Hitting again at Rashid’s assertion, Moonis tweeted: “I respect Sheikh Rashid however he’s forgetting that he used to take cash from the elders of his social gathering throughout his pupil life.”

In a separate assertion, the PML-Q chief claimed that events with 50 seats had been approaching a five-seat social gathering for a gathering and consultations.

“Some say that if an individual with only one seat can turn out to be an inside minister, then why a celebration with 5 seats can’t have its personal chief minister and governor.”