The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly summoned the former NAB chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal and the director-general of the National Accountability Bureau Lahore, Major (r) Shehzad Saleem, to testify regarding allegations of sexual harassment made against them by woman named Tayyaba Gul.
The petitioner asked the court to declare the notice sent to him invalid by naming the National Assembly (NA) secretary, the Public Accounts Committee, and other respondents in the petition.
In the petition, DG NAB claimed that the PAC had overstepped its bounds by summoning him.
He further stated that the woman’s petitions were already sub judice at an accountability court in Lahore and the Federal Shariat Court.
“And as long as Tayyaba’s petitions are pending in the courts, it is prayed to the court to grant me stay in the case,” he requested.
The truth of the matter, the DG went on to add, was that the woman had filed a petition in the PAC with mala fide intent.
“It cannot be ruled out either that the committee chairman member of the National Assembly (MNA) Noor Alam Khan might have himself asked the woman to file the complaint against me and the ex-NAB chairman only for his own vested interest because he is already facing an inquiry by the bureau,” read the petition.
And when the petitioner added, that a relevant forum already existed for Tayyaba for the redressal of her complaint, the initiation of an inquiry by the PAC was not justified.
“Such is the conduct of the committee chairman that he keeps bragging about that he was not loyal to the party on whose ticket he was elected as MNA,” the petition concluded.
