PHC directs DG NAB to appear in torture case

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has directed the director general, National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore to appear before the sessions court on January 11 in a case of torture on an employee. A trial court had acquitted retired Major Shahzad Salim, presently director general, NAB Lahore in a case in which an employee of NAB, Gul Khitab, had accused him of torturing him. Shahzad Salim was then serving as director general, NAB in KP Gul Khitab had been accused of taking bribe from an accused facing a case of corruption being pursued by NAB KP. The PHC at the time had directed registration of a case against Shahzad Salim, but a trial court had acquitted him. The PHC on Monday ordered the sessions court to restart the trial. It summoned directed Shahzad Salim to appear before the court on January 11.