National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar Thursday turned down Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif’s recommendation to nominate Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique as a member of the Public Accounts Committee.
The speaker has taken the view that the nomination of the PML-N leader in the PAC merely to give him relief from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases is unjustified and won’t give a good message.
Rafique and his brother Salman Rafique are currently in NAB custody in the Paragon Housing scandal.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan has accepted Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid’s request to nominate him as a member of the PAC.
