Felt like we were terrorists, says Hamza Shehbaz

LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that, “for the first time I felt like we were like terrorists,” stop threatening us; we have faced Musharraf’s accountability process.

Talking to the media in Lahore, Hamza said, the team came to the house and tried to enter it to arrest me as I was a terrorist.

He said National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has violated the court orders when they conducted a raid at 96-H Model Town.

Hamza further said that every time he has received a call-up notice from the accountability bureau, despite his reservations he has shown up.

Hamza stressed that he had been given permission to travel abroad to meet his daughter and had returned a day before the court given deadline.

“No one is asking about the corruption in the BRT project. Only Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz are arrested.”

Punjab Assembly opposition leader added that, even the Supreme Court has said NAB has become politicised and because of their policies Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir committed suicide. A day earlier the Islamic Ideological Council also condemned the way they conduct raids and people in handcuffs.

He maintained NAB violated court’s orders. “According to the order, NAB has to inform me 10 days before making an arrest.”

Earlier in the day, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team returned after conducting a raid at the residence of Hamza Shehbaz Sharif.