Now everyone will be held accountable, says Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Deposed prime minister and PML-N Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday said everyone would be held accountable and now nobody would be able to save themselves from accountability.

Speaking to reporters inside the accountability court conducting the Avenfield reference proceedings, he criticised PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari's statement calling on him, in a single sentence, to provide accountability of the last 30 years, saying "everyone will have to be held accountable now".

Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team investigating the Asghar Khan case will decide on Monday when to summon Nawaz Sharif to record his statement, Geo reports.

The probe team, led by Additional DG Ehsan Sadiq, is preparing ‘strategy papers’ that will outline the course of investigation. On Wednesday, former army chief General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg and former director general ISI Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani appeared before the FIA committee a number of times to record their statements.

The committee was constituted on Tuesday to conduct investigation. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Saqib Nisar on May 9 gave the federal government a week to summon a cabinet meeting to determine what action to take in the light of the 2012 Asghar Khan case verdict.

The attorney general (AG) and head of the FIA appeared before the Supreme Court on the implementation, or lack thereof, of the apex court's verdict in the case filed by the late former air chief, Asghar Khan.

During the hearing, Chief Justice Nisar remarked that the court had given its order in the case and rejected the review petitions of Gen Beg and Lt Gen Asad Durrani, accused of illegally influencing the 1990 elections.