*ISLAMABAD - Shehbaz Sharif has lashed out at the government over his arrest.*
*He told the National Assembly session on Wednesday that NAB told him the charges against him weren’t of corruption but that he awarded contracts to former chief of army staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s brother in an effort to appease him.*
He revealed that a NAB officer named Aftab said that the charge against him was awarding a Rs1.5 billion contract to Major Kamran Kayani, the brother of the former COAS.
“They said I used my political muscle to placate Gen Kayani by awarding this contract to Maj Kamran Kayani,” he told the NA session.
Relating the story of when he first met Maj Kamran, Shehbaz said that in 2008, when he took charge as Punjab chief minister, he saw that a Rs40 billion project had been awarded to Maj Kamran but he was not working on it. He tried to explain to him that he must finish the work but Maj Kamran didn’t listen, so Shehbaz said he met Gen Kayani.