IB sent ambulance to spy on JIT, claims Naeem-ul-Haque

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Naeem-ul-Haque has accused the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of spying on the Joint Investigation Team during its probe of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in the Panama Papers case.

“Confirmed: The ambulance sent to JIT during its interrogation of Sharif family was, in fact, an IB vehicle sent to monitor events,” said Haque in a message posted Thursday on social media website Twitter.

The PTI leader was speaking about the arrival of an ambulance on May 30 at the JIT headquarters, where former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s son Hussain Nawaz had appeared to record his statement.

It was the second appearance of the former premier’s son before the JIT, which continued interrogation for five and a half hours.

Interestingly, around two-and-a-half hours after the JIT started deposing National Bank of Pakistan President Saeed Ahmad and later Hussain, the special ambulance arrived at the JIT's headquarters at the Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad.

Answering journalists' queries at the academy's gate, a man sitting in the SUV-turned-ambulance with a government number plate identified himself as Dr Omar and said they had been called in. He refused to comment further and went inside, Geo News had reported.