Lahore: Sheikh Rashid, the leader of the Awami Muslim League, has been summoned by the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) for Friday in connection with a government fee scandal (tomorrow).
The former prime of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is thought to be friendly with Mr. Rashid, who is suspected of stealing millions of rupees in fees from the sale of state land to the Life Residencia Islamabad Housing Society.
The housing society’s administration has also been called in for questioning by the ACE.
The former interior minister has been ordered to appear before investigators on July 15 at the ACE headquarters in Lahore with pertinent records, according to a call-up notice. “And a unilateral action would be taken against him in the event of his non-appearance,”At a recent public event in Punjab, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz warned that her party’s government would not spare “Imran Khan and his cronies.”
According to a source in the PML-N, the PTI government has turned to politically victimisation of its rivals. The Shehbaz Sharif-led government will not go to that extreme, but it would unquestionably not allow Imran Khan and his good friends off the hook for “corruption.”An additional Imran Khan ally, Moonis Elahi of the PML-Q, was the target of a money laundering investigation that was previously launched by the coalition government led by the PML-N.
In exchange for their (the Chaudhrys’) support for the no-confidence vote brought before the National Assembly against Imran Khan, the Sharifs offered Mr. Moonis’ father Chaudhry Parvez Elahi the position of chief minister of Punjab. Mr. Moonis had rebuffed the offer.
