Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif failed to appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore for second time on Sunday. He was summoned for questioning in a case pertaining to misuse of official powers for construction of a road leading to the Sharif family residence at Jati Umra, Raiwind.
Sources said NAB's combined investigation team had summoned Nawaz on May 20 over allegations that the Sharif brothers 'misused' their authority to increase the cover area of the road between Raiwind and their family residence and allegedly misappropriated Rs 125 million allocated for other public welfare schemes of district council Lahore.
The NAB authorities, it is learnt, have decided to file a reference against Nawaz Sharif for non-cooperation. It may be recalled that investigations against the Sharif brothers in the case were initiated by NAB on April 17, 2000, but later on the case was shelved as the Sharif family was allowed to leave the country by then Chief Executive General Pervaiz Musharraf (retd) under an agreement. Former Justice Javed Iqbal, who is new NAB chairman, recently ordered a reinvestigation of the case. Earlier, Nawaz had not appeared before the bureau despite having been summoned because he was in London at the time. He was, therefore, summoned once again by the NAB on 20th May but he failed to appear.
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