RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday submitted response to a questionnaire, containing 54 questions in connection with three cases against him including Park Lane Estate, handed over to him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi.

According to sources, Zardari, in his written response, maintained that the NAB has no jurisdiction pertaining to the Park Lane Estate case as according to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO), the accountability watchdog is not liable to investigate matters of a private company.

He questioned the bureau’s jurisdiction over the matter while maintaining that Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and he have no affiliation with the Parthenon Company.

The erstwhile president stated that the company was bought in 1989 from Sadruddin Hashwani in which Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Iqbal Memon, Rehmatullah, Muhammad Younus and Altaf Hussain were shareholders.

“I owned just 25 percent shares of the Park Lane Company, and in 2008, had resigned from its directorship before taking oath as the president of Pakistan,” Zardari claims.

To one of the questions, he responded that the Parthenon Company was not aware about a loan of Rs1.5 billion by the National Bank of Pakistan.