Shahzad Akbar rejects Broadsheet's 'cuts' claims.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister's Advisor on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar said Thursday that the allegations of Kaveh Moussavi, owner of Broadsheet LLC, regarding alleged bribes or 'cuts' by both civilian and military officials were baseless and borne out of the bitterness of Moussavi over not getting further contracts from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.

M. Akbar, the all-powerful accountability Czar who enjoys immense confidence of Prime Minister Imran Khan, said he met Mr Moussavi only twice. 'I met him in 2019 through a mutual friend in London. Only two meetings took place,' Mr. Akbar said while talking to The Nation. However, the allegations about a cut are from a meeting that allegedly took place in 2018, he said. Moussavi claims that someone met him as a representative of the government of Pakistan and asked for a cut to get a new deal signed with the PTI government.

This claim is vehemently disputed by the accountability advisor who stressed that no military or civilian official offered such a thing. 'We don't know any General Malik in NAB. There was no such person in NAB in 2018,' Akbar said.

The advisor added that Mr Moussavi did not convey any concerns directly to him in the past and only now has come up with a series of allegations. 'He can go to the police in London and get investigations done,' he said. 'As far as the Pakistani government is concerned, no such meetings took place and neither was any underhand offer made to Moussavi.'

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