{"id":16666,"date":"2017-08-31T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T06:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16666"},"modified":"2017-08-31T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T06:53:20","slug":"imran-khan-seeks-nab-probe-into-metro-bus-corruption-shehbaz-denies-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16666","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan seeks NAB probe into Metro Bus corruption; Shehbaz denies allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD August 31 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan says the Chinese have exposed Multan Metro Bus fraud by directly implicating Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chief in a statement on micro-blogging website Twitter urged National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to probe all metro bud and orange line train projects which he alleged that were clearly not undertaken for well-being of the masses but for massive kickbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s\u00a0tweets come after CM Punjab\u2019s presser in Lahore earlier today in which he denied receiving kickbacks from two companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the Panama Papers exposed NS [Nawaz Sharif] and [the] family\u2019s corruption, the Chinese have exposed Multan Metro fraud directly implicating Shahbaz Sharif,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Shehbaz Sharif had\u00a0denied allegations of receiving kickbacks worth Rs3 billion in Multan metro project.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for provision of evidences against allegations on him in a presser, the chief minister said bogus allegations were being levelled against the provincial government by design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultan metro project is being subjected to an unwarranted criticism,\u201d he asserted, adding that false claims were being with regard to offering contracts to two companies after receiving kickbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of those two companies does not exist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD August 31 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan says the Chinese have exposed Multan Metro Bus fraud by directly implicating Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The PTI chief in a statement on micro-blogging website Twitter urged National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to probe all metro bud and orange line train projects which he alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,108],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}