ISLAMABAD: Two main opposition parties have rejected the formation of theInquiry Committee on Broadsheet led by Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday trashed the inquiry committee setup by the government on the revelations made by Broadsheet owner KavehMoussavi.
PPP Senator Nayyar Hussain Bukhari said probing the Broadsheet issueamounted to befooling people. He was of the view that the appointment ofretired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed as the committee head was proof of thegovernment’s bad intentions.
“Making him the committee head means that the government wants to put allblame of the Broadsheet issue on the preceding governments,” he apprehendedand said Justice (r) Azmat Saeed had not only been NAB’s prosecutor but isalso a member of Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital’s Board of Governors (BoG).
Bukhari said since Broadsheet was not an ordinary case, but a serious one,therefore PPP wanted a transparent inquiry into it.
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Senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said the appointment of Justice Azmat Saeedproved that Prime Minister Imran Khan is trying to protect the NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB) and himself.
In a tweet, Ahsan Iqbal said “Azmat Saeed was also on NAB panel whenBroadsheet deal was done under former president Pervez Musharraf.”
