ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) detained former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry in a corruption case on Saturday, according to A News.
The arrest warrant was signed by NAB Chairman Lt-Gen (retd) Nazir Ahmed Butt, and Chaudhry was taken into custody from Adiala jail, where he was detained in a fraud case.
The former information minister was detained in a corruption case, according to the warrant, and will be brought before the court.
Hiba Chaudhry, the politician’s wife, acknowledged that an arrest order for Fawad Chaudhary had been issued.
Hiba uploaded a picture of the warrant with the caption “Fawad Chaudhry is accused of commission of the offence of corruption and corrupt practices under section 9(a) of NAO, 1999” on X, previously Twitter.
Fawad was detained on November 4 (Saturday) from his Islamabad apartment after a complaint was lodged against him in Islamabad’s Aabpara Police Station for accepting a Rs5 million bribe in return for a job.
Hiba earlier stated that Fawad was arrested without cause. “Fawad has been arrested and taken to an unknown place,” she went on to say.
Fawad was detained from his home in January after he openly “threatened” Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officers during a media interview outside former PTI head Imran Khan’s residence in Zaman Park. However, the then-coalition administration insisted that it had nothing to do with the politician’s detention.
In June of this year, the lawmaker apologized to the electoral commission for reportedly using “intemperate” language against the ECP and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja.
Fawad was also among the hundreds of party members and officials detained since May 9 in connection with the PTI’s suspected role in the rioting that cost at least eight lives and injured scores more.
In June, the former minister was among the PTI figures present at the inauguration of the Istihkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), led by Khan’s close political adviser Jahangir Tareen.