New NAB ordinance issued to 'save the friends', says Akram Durrani.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amendment Ordinance 2019 has been issued after the NAB chairman's statement that the 'direction of winds being changed,' opposition said in a press conference after meeting of its Rehbar Committee today, media reported.

Rahbar Committee convener Akram Durrani said the NAB ordinance has been introduced to save 'the friends'. He claimed that the government has invoked the ordinance to save its friends.

Durrani after a meeting of the joint opposition's Rehbar Committee alleged that cases are lodged against those who speak up openly adding that Ahsan Iqbal was arrested for his outspoken statements.

Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was imprisoned in a cell of death row prisoners in jail and now a notice has been issued to Bilawal Bhutto, Akram Durrani said.

'We don't want confrontation among the state institutions and want that every institution must function in its constitutional...