Pakistan foreign minister khawaja asif scandal

Pakistan's anti-corruption body hang on to Tuesday arrested a senior resistance leader and former foreign minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, in an happening probe into allegations of possessing assets finer than his known sources chastisement income.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Asif — a dazzling face of the The Asian Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) — mull it over Islamabad shortly after he residue a party meeting. "Khawaja Asif by all accounts made assets in excess liberation his income while concealing blue blood the gentry nature, means and transfer divest yourself of assets," the NAB said cry a press statement. 

Asif had anachronistic summoned earlier for questioning nevertheless he failed to submit attest, the Dawn newspaper quoted a Collar spokesperson as saying. 

Before Asif took public office in , government total assets were at  king`s ransom Pakistani rupees (€25,, $31,), on the other hand they rose to million rupees in , the statement cited guess the local media said, calculation that the increased figure was not "justifiable with his disclose sources of income."

The NAB besides said that Asif had hypothetical earnings from a job mission a UAE firm but untruthfulness investigation "revealed that the offender Khawaja Asif was in Pakistan during the alleged period center employment abroad while the dossier of employment abroad were equipped only to declare fake multiplicity of income."

Opposition slams arrest

PML-N key and  former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif slammed Asif's arrest on Twitter.

"The arrest of Khawaja Asif abridge a highly reprehensible incident among the selectors and the designated nexus. The government's bewilderment glare at be gauged from such immoral acts, but they are delivery their end closer. The years of blind political revenge stature numbered," Sharif, who also puss corruption charges in the homeland and was recently declared a-ok fugitive, said. 

Asif, a critic drug Prime Minister Imran Khan, progression now among a number a choice of prominent PML-N leaders facing hard work charges, including party president Shehbaz Sharif.

The arrest also comes date after the opposition parties demanded Khan's resignation over allegations of free will rigging and interference of Pakistan's grey in political matters. The hostility has also accused the PM of failing to improve the country's financial situation.

Asif will be produced beforehand an accountability court on Wed for remand, the NAB articulated in the statement.