Return of LNG reference is proof of Shahid Khaqan’s innocence, Saad Rafiq

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Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader and former federal minister Khawaja Saad Rafique has said that the return on the merits of the LNG reference against critics of the current government, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Miftah Ismail, is proof of their innocence.

In one of his messages on social media website X (formerly Twitter), League leader Khawaja Saad Rafiq said that former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and his associates were subjected to political revenge for supporting Nawaz Sharif for a long time. went.

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He further said that founder PTI and Saqib Nisar nexus used NAB as a sword against opponents, founder PTI himself had said that Shahid Khaqan wanted to go to jail, we sent him.

It should be noted that the accountability court of Islamabad has acquitted former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Miftah Ismail in the LNG reference NAB case. The LNG reference case was heard by Accountability Court judge Nasir Javed Rana. On this occasion, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi appeared in the court along with his lawyers.

During the hearing, Deputy Prosecutor Azhar Maqbool said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is withdrawing the reference against Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. After NAB declared Shahid Khaqan Abbasi innocent, all the accused including Shahid Khaqan were acquitted.

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Sources say that the decision to end the reference by NAB has been taken on merit. The request to drop the reference has been made by the former head of PSO.

It should be noted that NAB had arrested Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in 2019 in the LNG case. In the reference, NAB claimed to have caused a loss of 21 billion rupees to the national exchequer.