Senate, NA authorised to summon anyone, says Mandviwalla about NAB boss.

ISLAMABAD -- Senate Deputy Chairperson Saleem Mandviwalla on Friday said that the Senate and the National Assembly are authorised to ask any individual to appear before them irrespective of their institutional affiliation.

Mandviwalla said he has never seen anyone refusing to appear before the Senate or the National Assembly whenever they were summoned.

"The chairperson of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is also a civil servant, therefore, he can also be summoned by the Senate as well as the NA," he maintained.

The Senate's deputy chairperson said summoning NAB personnel before the Senate was not unprecedented as several people had been called in the...