PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were summoned by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) today in separate cases.
However, both the husband and wife will not appear before the bureau.
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The NAB had summoned the PTI chairman in the Toshakhana case today. Bushra Bibi had been summoned in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case.
She later submitted a written response over not appearing before the NAB. The response says she can show up at the bureau along with her husband on July 4. She has sought that her appearance before the NAB in the case be transferred to July 4.
Bushra Bibi said that due to her appearance before the Lahore High Court, she could not show up in Islamabad.
She further says that she had stated in her reply to an earlier summons notice that she did not have any documents related to the case.
She added that she did not even have photocopies of any documents.
It had been said in the earlier notices that the appearance before the NAB should be linked to the husband, Bushra Bibi’s response said.
“I cannot appear before the NAB Rawalpindi office without my mehram,” she added. The NAB had once again summoned both husband and wife after they failed to appear on earlier notices on June 23.
The bureau had dispatched notices to Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi.
The bureau had issued a summons notice to Imran Khan to appear in the Toshakhana inquiry on June 23 after he failed to comply with similar notices sent earlier.
The former prime minister was also instructed to bring along the relevant record.
In the notice issued by the NAB, it was said that the PTI chairman had been issued a notice for Wednesday, but he failed to appear.
