Bilawal flays NAB for ignoring corruption in KP.

Byline: Manzoor Ali

PESHAWAR -- Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday criticised the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for closing the eyes to corruption in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a workers convention in Chagarmati village on the outskirts of the provincial capital, the PPP leader criticised the accountability body and Prime Minister Imran Khan.

As the NAB has summoned Mr Bilawal to appear before it on Dec 24 in connection with a fake bank accounts case, he said those who though the PPP leaders would be afraid of the NAB notices were mistaken.

He said the NAB's was a black law, which was being used to suppress political opponents of the ruling party.

The PPP leader said the NAB was arresting politicians from Sindh and Punjab but why it was not doing so in KP.

He wondered if KP was free of corruption during the PTI rule.

Mr Bilawal alleged that PTI leader Jehangir Khan Tareen had assumed the role of the deputy prime minister and was managing the Punjab and KP governments.

He said a joint investigation team should have been formed against Mr Tareen over the non-disclosure of assets.

The PPP leader said his party had faced the 'certified traitor' Musharraf and would face Imran Khan as well.

He said the 'selected' government has failed on all fronts and it was not even able to issue a notification properly.

'What type of democracy is this where elections are not transparent and where there are curbs on protests and media freedom,' he said.

Mr Bilawal said media was free to interview terrorists, captured Indian spy Kalbushan Jhadav and Indian pilot Abhinandan but it couldn't telecast the interview of former president Asif Ali Zardari.

He said regrettably, it was not the democracy for which the PPP workers and leaders had suffered lashes and sacrificed lives.

The PPP leader said what kind of democracy existed in the country where transparent elections weren't held in 2018.

He said elections were always stolen in the country and that attempts were made throughout 1990s to rig elections to stop the PPP from coming to power.

Mr Bilawal said in 2018...