{"id":6819,"date":"2019-07-18T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:09:28","slug":"former-pakistan-premier-arrested-in-graft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6819","title":{"rendered":"Former Pakistan premier arrested in graft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been arrested in a corruption scandal, related to the award of a multi-billion rupee liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract, officials and local media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A NAB spokesperson said that the former prime minister, was detained for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal, involving import of LNG from Qatar, when he was energy minister, under Sharif from 2013 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi has denied the charges. He charged the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, of wrecking vengeance on opposition.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second prime minister \u2013 after Nawaz Sharif- arrested on alleged corruption charges, during last one year.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Asif Zardari is already in custody, for his alleged involvement in a money laundering case.<\/p>\n<p>Over a dozen leaders, some of them from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its allies are also facing investigations in different cases of corruption and misuse of authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been arrested in a corruption scandal, related to the award of a multi-billion rupee liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract, officials and local media reported on Thursday. A NAB spokesperson said that the former prime minister, was detained for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal, involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6821,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}