Shehzad Akbar, former PM withheld £190m case details: Azam Khan

ISLAMABAD, (Zahid Gishkori): Former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Azam Khan on Friday told National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that chairman PTI had handed over the £190 million deal to Former Accountability Advisor and head of Assets Recovery Unit Shahzad Akbar.

The investigation carried out by HUM Investigation Team (HIT) reveals that on February 2 2019, Shahzad Akbar allegedly presented the record of the £190 million deal to the former Prime Minister in a meeting shrouded in confidentiality.

According to Azam Khan, the record of this entire deal is in the possession of Shahzad Akbar, and chairman PTI.

Khan also told NAB that  Akbar never provided details of the deal to anyone other than the former PM, and despite the fact that five members of the cabinet wanted Akbar’s briefing on the matter, the then government did not present the case in cabinet division.

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He further told NAB that Bushra Bibi, Zulfi Bukhari, Shahzad Akbar, and Bahria Town chairman, Malik Riaz were all involved in Al-Qadir University project. Bukhari and Akbar executed  the 458 kanal land, as gift, deal with Bahria Town in the Al-Qadir university project, he maintained.

Azam Khan has requested NAB for more time to prepare a detailed answer on the ‘donations’ given to the university.

Hum Investigation Team tried to contact Shahzad Akbar, Zulfi Bukhari, Malik Riaz and chairman PTI for their stance, but they did not respond.