The announcement came after two weeks of mounting pressure and popular protests calling for Muscat to quit for his handling of the probe into Caruana Galizia's car bomb killing.
The investigation into Caruana Galizia's death has rocked the island's government. There is pressure on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign over the issue.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif condemned the arrest, saying that NAB was being used for political victimisation.
In July 2018, Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in prison in another case of corruption related to a four-storey luxury property in London while his daughter was given seven years.
Rahul Gandhi had earlier alleged that name of the son of CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan surfaced in the Panama Papers, but no action was taken.
Rodrigo Rato headed the IMF between 2004-07 and was Spain's deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister between 1996-2004.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment along with a fine of eight million…
Sharif, 68, is in London attending to his wife Kulsoom Nawaz who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year.
The new Indian names include PVR Cinemas owner Ajay Bijli and members of his family, industrialist Sunil Mittal’s son and Hike Messenger CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal, and Jalaj Ashwin Dani, son of Asian Paints promoter Ashwin Dani, among others
Nearly 1.2 million new documents have emerged detailing the offshore financial links of an array of individuals and organisations, including Messi and Argentine president Mauricio Macri among others across the world
