Former Pak PM Abbasi manhandled by anti-graft official?
Former Pakistan prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was allegedly manhandled during questioning by an official of the country's anti-corruption agency, who also threw a glass at him, according to a media report on Thursday.
Abbassi, 60, is accused of awarding a 15-year contract for an LNG terminal against the rules while he was petroleum minister in the cabinet of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The case was closed by NAB in 2016 but was reopened in 2018.
The News reported that a member of the investigation team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) first shouted at the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leader and later reportedly manhandled him, a charge denied by the agency.
Abbassi was was allegedly manhandled by an officer of the NAB during his physical remand.
Quoting NAB sources, the newspaper reported that the incident happened during the question and answer hour session with Abbasi at NAB Rawalpindi office located at Melody, Islamabad.
The sources further claim that NAB