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Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has arrested a senior opposition leader and former foreign minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, in an ongoing probe into allegations of possessing assets higher than his known sources of income, reports Deutsche Welle.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Asif – a leading face of the The Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) – in Islamabad shortly after he left a party meeting. “Khawaja Asif allegedly made assets in excess of his income while concealing the nature, means and transfer of assets,” the NAB said in a press statement.
Asif had been summoned earlier for questioning but he failed to submit evidence, the Dawn newspaper quoted a NAB spokesperson as saying. Before Asif took public office in 1991, his total assets were at 5.1 million Pakistani rupees ($31,800), but they rose to 221 million rupees in 2018, the statement cited in the local media said, adding that the increased figure was not “justifiable with his known sources of income.”
Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has arrested a senior opposition leader and former foreign minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, in an ongoing probe into allegations of possessing assets higher than his known sources of income, reports Deutsche Welle.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Asif – a leading face of the The Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) – in Islamabad shortly after he left a party meeting. “Khawaja Asif allegedly made assets in excess of his income while concealing the nature, means and transfer of assets,” the NAB said in a press statement.
Asif had been summoned earlier for questioning but he failed to submit evidence, the Dawn newspaper quoted a NAB spokesperson as saying. Before Asif took public office in 1991, his total assets were at 5.1 million Pakistani rupees ($31,800), but they rose to 221 million rupees in 2018, the statement cited in the local media said, adding that the increased figure was not “justifiable with his known sources of income.”
