NAB arrests Ahsan Iqbal in sports complex alleged corruption case.

ISLAMABAD -- National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi on Monday arrested Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal to record his statement in the case regarding alleged corruption in Narowal Sports City (NSC) Project.

NAB confirmed the arrest in a statement, saying that a team of doctors has been called for the PML-N MNA's medical assessment. Ahsan Iqbal will be produced before an accountability court today (Tuesday), where NAB will ask for his physical remand.

The investigation against him was initiated in May 2018 on the orders of NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal to verify a complaint against the alleged misappropriation of government funds - a whopping Rs6 billion - in the construction of NSCP.

He is accused of using funds of the federal government and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for a sports city being established in Narowal - a multi-billion project.

The PML-N leader had said he had submitted documents related to his income and expenditures to Rawalpindi NAB. The opposition leader had already replied to a questionnaire given to him by the bureau in connection with the same case.

Speaking to the media before heading to NAB, Ahsan Iqbal had said that when PML-N came to power in 2013, he was planning minister, had taken up several projects that were incomplete and NSC was one of them.

He said that before Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) came to power, the project of NSC was 90 per cent complete, but the present government had turned it into ruins.

"In fact, NAB should take those people to task who are responsible for the destruction of a national asset [NSC]," he added.

The PML-N leader said that when he became a federal minister, the NSC project was in the doldrums and like many other stalled projects, the PML-N government revived it and took it...

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