ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has denounced the arrest of the Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani, and also alleged that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has resorted to lame excuses to politically victimize its opponents after its failure to seal majority votes in elections.
Reacting to the arrest of Agha Siraj Durrani by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi from Islamabad on Wednesday, the Sindh Chief Minister’s Information and Law Adviser Murtaza Wahab said that till that that, not a single case had ever been filed in any accountability court against Siraj Durrani.
Murtaza Wahab said that for the first time in Pakistan’s history, a speaker of a provincial assembly has been held.
The Sindh chief minister’s adviser said that the PPP would resolve the legal issues through legal ways, and opt political course of action to deal with political issues.
The PPP lawmaker in the National Assembly Nafisa Shah in her tweet also questioned the arrest of the Speaker Sindh Assembly as merely an inquiry was underway against him.
A #Speaker is the custodian of the Assembly and is responsible for upholding &protecting the privileges of elected representatives. How can #NAB arrest a #Speaker esp. when the case is in investigation stage only? This is like inflicting a coup on Sindh.
— Nafisa Shah (@ShahNafisa) February 20, 2019
Meanwhile, the Accountability Court Judge in Islamabad Muhammad Bashir granted the NAB a three-day transit remand of Agha Siraj Durrani, and ordered to produce him in the relevant Court in Karachi within three days.
Earlier in the day, the Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani was arrested on charges of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income.
In a press release, NAB said that the arrest was carried out by its Karachi Bureau with the collaboration of NAB Rawalpindi and NAB headquarters intelligence wing.
