Never met Tayyaba Gul: Azam Khan

Azam Khan, former premier Imran Khan’s principalpal secretary, on Tuesday denied the accusations that he had ever met Tayyaba Gul in the Prime Minister’s House, let alone keeping her in it for a month.

He asserted that his claims could be easily corroborated by the records of the PM house.

Azam was speaking before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly that grilled him over the allegations that Tayyaba was held captive in the PM house for a month.

“I strongly deny these allegations. I have never met this lady. It cannot happen that one stays in the Prime Minister’s House for a month and leaves no record behind. I do not remember that lady ever came to the Prime Minister’s House,” he said.

Tayyaba Gul had made startling accusations against the former National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chief Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal and former prime minister Imran Khan, before the PAC in July and had also nominated Azam Khan as privy to the incident.

Testifying before the PAC, Tayyaba Gul had alleged that Azam Khan, former principal secretary to prime minister Imran Khan, respectively, had invited her for a meeting after she lodged a complaint on the Citizen Portal.

In the complaint, she had accused then-NAB chairman Justice Iqbal of sexual harassment and had also attached screenshots from secretly recorded footage.

She had told the PAC that Azam Khan asked for the video and assured her they would take action against Mr Iqbal, but the video was later aired on a television channel