Khawaja Asif to be kept in NAB custody

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Lahore, 31st December: Lahore court has issued orders to keep PML-N leader Khawaja Asif into custody for two weeks.

According to reports, on Thursday accountability in Lahore has issued the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), a 14-day remand of PML-N’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Khawaja Muhammad Asif.

According to reports, Khawaja Asif was arrested by NAB on Tuesday night in a case pertaining to acquiring assets beyond means of income.

The prosecutor informed the court that Asif had acquired assets in the names of his wife and children as well, initially worth Rs 5.1 million, Asif’s assets now amounted to Rs 812.1m.

The prosecutor also told the court that the PML-N leader had not disclosed the means through which he accumulated these assets and requested physical remand of Asif so that the investigation against the PML-N leader could be completed.

However, Asif’s counsel has objected to the request, saying that the case against his client was baseless and false.

Dawn News has reported that Khawaja Asif had alleged he had been shifted to NAB’s custody in Lahore because Prime Minister Imran Khan couldn’t get the desired result when an inquiry was launched against him by the watchdog’s Rawalpindi chapter.

Asif’s counsel told the court that the NAB, Rawalpindi, had summoned his client multiple times and Asif had appeared each time. Besides, he appeared before the NAB, Lahore, all five times he was summoned, the counsel added.

However, the court has sent Asif on physical remand till Jan 13, directing the NAB to submit a progress report on the investigation at the next hearing.

According to previous reports, the NAB team had moved Asif from Islamabad to Lahore after obtaining his transit remand from an accountability court on Wednesday.

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