ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed on Saturday moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi over alleged corruption in the award of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract in 2015.
The petitioner has alleged massive corruption in the LNG contract, which, it said, the prime minister in his capacity as the minister for petroleum and natural resources had awarded back in 2015.
The AML chief filed the petition through Barrister Latif Khosa, pleading with the court to disqualify the premier from office. The court was further requested to order the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to take action against him in this regard.
Speaking to the media outside the apex court, Rasheed said he was going to expose those who bought expensive LNG to the country, causing a huge loss to the national exchequer.
He said it was not easy to get his hands on the documents regarding the LNG contract, but he succeeded in getting the documents to expose the alleged LNG scam.
The corruption case against PM Abbasi was pending with the NAB for a long time alongwith many more high profile (corruption) case which are coming out from beneath the carpet. But the PM is not concerned and says the Apex Court verdicts are likely to go into the dust beans – a statement unbecoming of a head of Government.
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