ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested PML-N senior leader and former foreign minister Khawaja Asif in Islamabad.

According to the sources Khawaja Asif was arrested from Ahsan Iqbal's residence in Islamabad.

According to the bureau's spokesperson, the PML-N leader had earlier been summoned for an inquiry but he failed to provide the required evidence.

The accountability watchdog claimed that Khawaja Asif could not furnish a satisfactory response on his possession of assets amounting to Rs260 million. NAB said it will present Asif tomorrow before the court to plea a transit remand to take him to Lahore chapter of the bureau.

Kh Asif is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-73 Sialkot-II. He was disqualified by the Islamabad High Court ahead of the 2018 general elections for possessing an Iqama (foreign employment contract).

But the Supreme Court of Pakistan had declared the verdict void and allowed him to contest the election.

It may be noted that earlier today, the federal minister for information Shibli Faraz said Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has been reduced to wreckage themselves, and thus they cannot come close to toppling the incumbent government.

The bubble of en masse resignations and vandalism has burst and the hype of PDM has fizzled out, Shibli Faraz said today.

The federal minister also noted in the backdrop of EU Disinfolab that India wants to destabilize Pakistan and the opposition parties, either deliberately or naively, playing right into their hands. NNI