LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif is expected to appear before National Accountability Bureau Lahore today.

The bureau has summoned Shehbaz at 10am today with regard to an inquiry into Ashiana-e-Iqbal housing scheme.

On January 17, NAB Lahore issued a notification stating that NAB Lahore has been conducting an inquiry against management/officials of Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC), Lahore Casa Developers, Lahore Development Authority and others.

The letter read that the prima facie Shehbaz Sharif, being the Punjab chief minister, ordered "cancellation of award of contract of Ashiana-e-Iqbal to successful bidder M/s Ch Latif and Sons, leading to award of contract to M/s Lahore Casa Developers (J.V), a proxy of M/s Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which resulted into loss of Rs193 million approximately."

Shehbaz vows to ?expose? NAB

On Sunday, Shehbaz Sharif had shared that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned him and he will bring the real face of the Bureau before the media with evidence.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Bab-e-Pakistan project on Lahore?s Walton Road, he said NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal was expressing his love for him by sending him notices, but he would bring the facts before the public. 

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CM Punjab was addressing a ceremony in Lahore

?I will apologise to the nation and leave politics if corruption of even a single penny is proved against me. But if it is not proved, you have to decide about the accusers.?

He said billions of rupees had been plundered in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL), Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), rental power plants, Nandipur and Chichuki Malian, but there was no one to hold them accountable.

The CM said NAB failed to recover looted money from Pakistan People?s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari.

?But we won?t spare him and bring back the looted money from (Zardari?s) Swiss bank (accounts), or from any other part of the world.? He said every single person of the country was well aware of the corruption committed by Zardari in the country.