NAB summons Bilawal on 24th in fake bank accounts case.

ISLAMBAD -- The NatAional Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for a second time this month in the fake bank accounts and money laundering case.

According to NAB, Mr Bilawal had 25 per cent shares in a private firm, Opal-225, a joint venture of the Zardari Group.

Mr Bilawal's spokesman Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, in a statement on Friday, confirmed that the PPP chief had received the notice for Dec 24 and alleged that the government was taking revenge from the opposition through NAB.

He said a number of ministers were facing corruption cases, but no one had been summoned by NAB.

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'NAB is only targeting the opposition,' the PPP leader said.

PPP leaders have been accused of transferring billions of rupees to Opal-225 via fake bank accounts. The company also took loans of billions of rupees from banks.

The bureau is investigating the fake bank accounts and money laundering case against the PPP leaders and on Dec 9, the bureau had filed eight references in the Accountability Court of Islamabad.

On May 29, NAB had served a 32-point questionnaire to the PPP chairperson during his short appearance in the...