CEOs’ appointments made on merit, Khaqan tells NAB National March 16, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has told the country’s top corruption watchdog body that he and his ministry made appointments of CEOs on merit in public limited companies. Abbasi was responding to NAB’s questionnaire which sought information under Section 19 of NAO, 1999 in an inquiry against officers/officials of government who according to the bureau were illegally appointed by his ministry in public companies and provision of funds in billions of rupees in violation of relevant rules. In response to the first question pertaining to alleged illegal appointment of Adnan Gilani at the top post in Pakistan LNG Limited, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said, “My first meeting with Adnan Gilani was in 2015 when he was a team leader of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. I remain unaware of the context of this question as I did not receive a copy of the complaint from NAB.”