Fazl decides not to appear before NAB team, if summoned.

ISLAMABAD -- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief and head of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has decided not to appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation team if any notice was served on him.

A close aide of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, on the condition of anonymity, told The Nation here on Sunday that the JUI-F chief would never appear before the NAB's team as his hands were clean.

Sources emphatically stated that from the very start, the stance of Maulana Fazlur Rehman and JUI-F on NAB was loud and clear, and that was the Bureau was being used by the government to 'pressurize and intimidate' the opposition leaders and thus continue the process of 'selective accountability' across the country.

The sources further informed The Nation that there was no change in JUI-F's stance on the Senate elections and en-masse resignations as the party's parliamentarians had already submitted their resignations to their leadership.

Meanwhile, Maulana Amjad Khan, a senior leader of JUI-F, in his comments on reports of NAB's notice issued to Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said the JUI-F chief had not received the notice as yet, adding even if he received any such notice he would never appear before the Bureau's investigation team.

He opined that the incumbent government was using NAB as a tool to victimize its opponents, adding it clearly showed the desperation of the government.

It is worth mentioning here that the NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has already arrested a close aide of Maulana Fazl Rehman, former forest officer Musa Khan, in assets beyond known means of income case.

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