MNA Safdar, ex-lawmaker trade corruption allegations

MANSEHRA: Member National Assembly (MNA) Muhammad Safdar and former MNA Laiq Muhammad Khan on Monday traded allegations of corruption and kickbacks against

each other.

“I welcome the National Accountably Bureau team to probe corruption in projects being executed in NA-21 but I want to make it clear that this investigation was started on the application of my rival and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Senator Azam Khan Swati,” Muhammad Safdar, the son-in-law of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, told a public gathering in Darband. He asked the people as to who was corrupt either he or his rival family led by Senator Azam Swati and his brother ex-MNA Laiq Swati.

Laiq recently joined the Awami National Party after leaving Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.Safdar, who had defeated Laiq in the 2013 general election in NA-21, said he didn’t commit corruption of even a single penny in mega projects being executed in his constituency.

It may be mentioned here that Safdar is already facing a NAB reference about making assets beyond his known sources of income.Meanwhile, the former MNA Laiq on Monday told reporters in Oghi that time was not far when MNA Safdar would be behind bars for corruption.

“Our hands are clean and we have been serving people since long but Safdar received kickbacks of Rs2 billion in development schemes,” he alleged and added that he would soon be put behind bars as NAB team had started investigation against him.