Ahsan Iqbal says incumbent govt is a 'comedy theatre'

ISLAMABAD: Responding to a hard-hitting press conference by the prime minister's aide Shahzad Akbar from earlier during the day, PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday lashed out at the government by referring to it as a 'comedy theatre'.

"Today, the so-called accountability cell conducted a news conference," said Iqbal in an indirect taunt aimed at Akbar. "During the press conference, he levelled false allegations at Shehbaz Sharif."

The former interior minister described the government as a 'comedy theatre' and said that its representatives acted like 'scared cats' whenever they were summoned to court.

"Imran Niazi has nothing to show hence he levels false allegations," he said.

Earlier, the prime minister's aide accused Shehbaz of laundering billions in the past 10 years. He said that the former Punjab chief minister's wealth had grown by 70 percent in the past decade.

Shehbaz Sharif is guilty of corruption worth billions of rupees, says Shahzad Akbar. 

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Akbar said that a 'startling increase' was observed in assets owned by Hamza Shehbaz.

He accused Shehbaz of establishing 32 fake companies with the money brought back through TT transactions.

Akbar said that three employees of Shehbaz's GMC Company were identified who were involved in running this multi-billion rupee network.

The employees were working at the CM Secretariat on different posts, he alleged. Nisar Gul, who is in NAB's custody has admitted that this was a fake company through which they laundered seven billion rupees, Akbar said.

Akbar put forward 18 questions for the PML-N president and challenged him to respond to them.