*ISLAMABAD – Shehbaz Sharif has lashed out at the government over hisarrest.*
*He told the National Assembly session on Wednesday that NAB told him thecharges against him weren’t of corruption but that he awarded contracts toformer chief of army staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s brother in aneffort to appease him.*
He revealed that a NAB officer named Aftab said that the charge against himwas awarding a Rs1.5 billion contract to Major Kamran Kayani, the brotherof the former COAS.
“They said I used my political muscle to placate Gen Kayani by awardingthis contract to Maj Kamran Kayani,” he told the NA session.
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Relating the story of when he first met Maj Kamran, Shehbaz said that in2008, when he took charge as Punjab chief minister, he saw that a Rs40billion project had been awarded to Maj Kamran but he was not working onit. He tried to explain to him that he must finish the work but Maj Kamrandidn’t listen, so Shehbaz said he met Gen Kayani.
