PML-N 'rejects' Broadsheet probe under retired Justice Azmat Saeed.

LAHORE -- The PML-N has 'rejected' a probe panel established by the PTI government which is to be headed by former Supreme Court Justice Azmat Saeed to investigate the Broadsheet scandal.

In a statement on Friday, senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal pointed out that the former Supreme Court judge was part of the bench in the Panama Papers case which disqualified Nawaz Sharif.

He was later invited to join the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital's Board of Governors after his retirement by Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Iqbal also pointed out that during the Musharraf regime, when the asset recovery agreement was signed with Broadsheet, Justice Azmat had been part of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

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