Abbasi overconfident to win his seat back in 2018 elections

Islamabad

A former member of the National Assembly from NA-56 Rawalpindi and chairman of the Metro Bus Service Project Hanif Abbasi on Tuesday brushed aside the reports about a NAB reference containing charges of corruption being filed  in midst of current month. 

In an informal chat with journalists waiting for interior minister's arrival to inaugurate state-of-the-art Nadra CNIC and passport facilitation centre alongside Benazir Bhutto Road (old Murree road), Abbasi in an overconfident tone replied to the query about reports of a reference being filed against him, said "Let it come. I don't bother about such references as I have already saw and faced a number of cases including murder charges".

A reporter when pointed out that he does not respond to the telephone calls of journalists with regard to Rawalpindi issues being representative of the constituency, Abbasi said: "I know to whom I represent and so far as winning or losing of my seat in the upcoming polls was concerned, my popularity has already been reflected in local council polls".

He replied to a query that an underpass for pedestrians will be constructed to facilitate the inhabitants of Shamsabad and Gulshan Dadan Khan on Benazir Bhutto Road. An overhead bridge catering to the needs of pedestrians was removed from the site at the time of construction of Metro track but construction of an alternative underground path was omitted although a number of underpasses were built at other points in Rawalpindi and Islamabad from where overhead bridges were removed.