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Pak's former PM Abbasi arrested

Abbasi is accused of illegally awarding the Liquefied Natural Gas terminal contracts worth Rs 220 billion to a company in which he is shareholder himself.

Pak's former PM Abbasi arrested

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Published : Jul 18, 2019, 7:55 PM IST

Islamabad: In a major blow to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the country's National Accountability Bureau on Thursday arrested former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi over his involvement in a corruption scandal in Lahore.

Abbasi is accused of illegally awarding the Liquefied Natural Gas terminal contracts worth Rs 220 billion to a company in which he was shareholder himself.

The PML-N leader was on his way to Lahore to attend a press conference when he was arrested.

Abbasi is Pakistan's third high-profile politician to be arrested after Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari.

Abbasi served as prime minister from August 2017 to May 2018.

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