Mandiwalla asks NAB to avoid issuing abrupt summoning orders to senators

ISLAMABAD: Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla Tuesday asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to avoid sending abrupt summoning orders to parliamentarians sans issuing a prior notice to the senator concerned.

Speaking in the Senate, he said NAB did not even bother to inform the Senate chairman about summoning a senator for investigations and complaint verifications.

Mandviwalla said he had already written a letter to the NAB chairman NAB to give reasons for summoning of any senator. NAB should issue a proper notice to the member concerned before summoning him, he added.

Senator Raza Rabbani, reading the rules, said NAB was bound to get permission of the Senate chairman before summoning any member, failing which a privilege motion could be filed against the NAB chairman. NAB should also give reason of summoning the member for inquiry, he added.