{"id":68255,"date":"2018-06-07T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T08:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68255"},"modified":"2018-06-07T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T08:32:38","slug":"sc-rejects-pml-n-plea-to-remove-javed-iqbal-as-chairman-nab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68255","title":{"rendered":"SC rejects PML-N plea to remove Javed Iqbal as chairman NAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, June 7 (TNS): The top court on Thursday rejected a\u00a0 petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League \u2013 Nawaz (PML-N) seeking the removal of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal from his post.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came during a brief in-chamber session conducted by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar over the petition filed by PML-N leader Noor Ahmed Awan.<\/p>\n<p>Awan had filed a constitutional petition against the NAB chairman in the Supreme Court on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The petition stated that the accountability bureau had released a press statement on May 8 which stated that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was involved in transferring money to India.<\/p>\n<p>NAB had issued a press release stating that will probe alleged laundering of $4.9 billion to India by Nawaz and others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD, June 7 (TNS): The top court on Thursday rejected a\u00a0 petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League \u2013 Nawaz (PML-N) seeking the removal of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal from his post. The decision came during a brief in-chamber session conducted by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255","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=68255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68256,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255\/revisions\/68256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}