{"id":4114,"date":"2021-11-21T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2021-11-21T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:58:16","slug":"shahid-khaqan-abbasi-says-nab-used-by-kleptocrats-to-change-loyalties-save-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shahid-khaqan-abbasi-says-nab-used-by-kleptocrats-to-change-loyalties-save-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says NAB used by kleptocrats to change loyalties &#038; save themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>LAHORE: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday denounced the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), terming it a tool with which kleptocrats &#8220;change loyalties and save themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am all for accountability \u2014 if you want accountability. NAB is not accountability. NAB is whatever it is \u2014 it is political engineering, it is manipulating politics, it is punishing people without convicting them,&#8221; he remarked, while addressing the Asma Jahangir Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N stalwart went on to say NAB is about &#8220;victimisation&#8221; \u2014 not that of an individual, or a group of individuals, or even a political party. &#8220;The entity paying the price today are the people of Pakistan,&#8221; he elaborated.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/president-alvi-given-authority-to-remove-nab-chief-in-new-ordinance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Alvi given authority to remove NAB chief in new ordinance<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday denounced the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), terming it a tool with which kleptocrats &#8220;change loyalties and save themselves&#8221;. &#8220;I am all for accountability \u2014 if you want accountability. NAB is not accountability. NAB is whatever it is \u2014 it is political engineering, it is manipulating politics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[2724,1763,877,708,1572,2649,177,209],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-asma-jahangir-conference","tag-former-prime-minister-shahid-khaqan-abbasi","tag-maryam-nawaz-lashes-out-at-pm-imran-khan","tag-national-accountability-bureau","tag-president-alvi","tag-pti-governemnt","tag-nab","tag-pml-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}