1 Since being bailed out, I have been away from political twitter for exactly 3 month. Today I rejoin. I wanted to tweet in detail about my NAB case & incarceration but today Pak is facing the gravest crisis it has faced. Therefore my personal story and suffering is unimportant.
2 Today I will only say that I was in NAB’s solitary confinement for 50 days and thereafter in Adiyala jail for 3 months. No reference has been filled against us for setting up an LNG import terminal even though I was arrested on August 6, 2019 and @SKhaqanAbbasi on July 18,2019.
3 To make it easy for NAB, lawyers for Shahid Abbasi and me have already said in court that there are more than 30 terminals set up outside Pakistan and if NAB can find one, just one, terminal that has a lower cost we will plead guilty to whatever charges NAB wishes to frame.
4 Obviously NAB hasn’t been able to find a single cheaper terminal anywhere in the world. Not one. Yet we were still arrested.
5 Shahid Abbasi & I make a similar offer to NAB for the LNG gas PSO bought from Qatar. If NAB can find a one deal —not two, not three, just one— that’s cheaper than the deal we have with Qatar up to that time then we will plead guilty to any charges NAB wants to frame against us.
6 Interesting the one deal NAB itself brought to court, India’s deal with Qatar, signed a month before Pakistan signed, also shows that India’s deal was more expensive than Pak. NAB’s consultant just didn’t understand the difference between slope and constant. You can verify.
7 For me as a politician it is unfortunately an occupational hazard to go to jail in the new Pakistan —-I guess we are back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. But I feel badly for Imran ul Haq, MD PSO, who was also jailed with us. He too was arrested for no reason. I hope he gets justice.
8 I mention Imran ul Haq here because NAB has filed another reference against him, Shahid Abbasi & Arshad Mirza (Secy Petroleum under us and Education under PTI). In the midst of the corona crisis arrest warrants for Shahid Abbasi and Mirza have been issued. The more things...
