ISLAMABAD (National Times) – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) gave clean chit to former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in the Toshakhana vehicles case.

In the latest development in the Toshakhana vehicles case against President Asif Ali Zardari, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and Senate chairman Yousaf Raza Gillani, the NAB pleaded for the acquittal of elder Sharif in the accountability court on Wednesday.

The NAB submitted the detailed report related to Nawaz Sharif’s investigation in the court.

The report said that the Saudi government gave vehicle to Nawaz Sharif as a gift in 1997 when he was the prime minister.
Nawaz Sharif surrendered the vehicle to Toshakhana and later it became part of the federal transport pool.

“Yousaf Raza Gillani offered Nawaz Sharif to buy the vehicle in 2008 when former was serving as the prime minister,” the report said. It added that Nawaz Sharif bought the vehicle from federal transport pool and not from the Toshakhana.

He didn’t pay the price from fake bank account, said the report.
The vehicle wasn’t part of Toshakhana when it was bought and therefore Nawaz Sharif can be exonerated from the reference, said the NAB.