*ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar has denotified PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Shairf from his membership ofthree important standing committees of the National Assembly of Pakistan onSunday.*
According to a notification issued by the NA secretariat, leader of theopposite in the NA Shehbaz Sharif had been detached from standingcommittees on law and justice, information and broadcasting and Kashmiraffairs.
It is pertinent to mention here that Information Minister, Fawad Chaudhry,on February 7, had said the federal cabinet had demanded Shehbaz Sharif toimmediately resign as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
“Shehbaz is wanted to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in cases,hence he must step down on moral grounds,” he had told a press conferenceafter the federal cabinet meeting.
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Shehbaz was accused in NAB cases who often comes to Islamabad, said theminister. “The cabinet has expressed its reservation on this situation.”
Chaudhry had said Shehbaz Sharif was himself trying to protect personswanted to NAB in different cases.
