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Islamabad, Sept. 5 (TBS): The\u00a0National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approved to initiate an inquiry into\u00a0Defence Minister\u00a0Pervez Khattak.<\/p>\n
The decision was taken in a\u00a0NAB\u00a0meeting held in\u00a0Islamabad.<\/p>\n
The meeting was headed by\u00a0NAB\u00a0Chairman Javed Iqbal and attended by the board of governors.<\/p>\n
According to the circular issued by\u00a0NAB, the anti-graft watchdog has approved a total of 14 inquiries.<\/p>\n
A probe will be initiated against\u00a0Defence Minister\u00a0Pervez Khattak,\u00a0Karachi\u00a0Mayor Waseem Akhtar,\u00a0Sindh\u00a0Assembly\u00a0Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and Dr Ehsan among 14 other people.<\/p>\n
EBM accorded approval to conduct inquiry against former
\nAdditional Chief Secretary (P&D) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khalid Pervaiz,
\nManaging Director Tourism Corporation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mushtaq
\nKhan, Iqbal Z Ahmed, Yousaf Jamil Ansari, Iftikhar Qaimkhani, Director
\nDeneral Sindh Building Control Authority, Mayor Karachi Waseem Ahmed,
\nFormer Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister Imtiaz Malah,Dilawar
\nHussain Memon, Chief Executive Officer ,MEPCO , Sukkar Nazir Soomro
\nand Messers Crystal Mod Town Rao and builders of Rana, Associates,
\nowner Rao Muhammad Shakir, and others.<\/p>\n
Likewise three other investigations have also been approved against Dr
\nShahid Mehboob,Vice Chancellor, GC University,Faisalabad, Ali Gul
\nKurd, Director General Finance, office, Quetta. Details would be
\nshared at appropriate time as per directives of Supreme Court of
\nPakistan. The EBM has accorded approval to file following corruption
\nreferences.<\/p>\n
EBM has approved filing reference against Dr Ahsan Ali, former Vice
\nChancellor, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan and others on
\naccusations of inflicting Rs 328.366 million in awarding contract of
\npurchasing IT equipments to favourite companies on higher rates.<\/p>\n
The EBM also approved filing a reference against Nawabzada
\nMehmoodzaib, former provincial minister for Technical Education,
\nManpower, Industries, Mineral Development Development , Khyber
\nPakhtunkhwa. They have been accused of inflicting Rs 350.52 million
\nlosses to national kitty by awarding phosphate exploration contract of
\n498.96 acre land on cheaper rates of Rs 14,980 by abusing authority.<\/p>\n
EBM approved filing reference against Izhar Hussain, former Food
\nMinister, Balochistan and others. They have been accused of
\nmisappropriation in sending 35,000 sacks of wheat to PRC Pashin. This
\ncaused Rs 210.18 million losses to national kitty.<\/p>\n
EBM approved filing corruption reference against Sultan
\nMuhammad Hinjra, , former member National Assembly and others. They
\nhave been accused of illegaly allotting 1342 Kanal state land of Thal
\nDevelopment Authority and One Kanal , 14 Marla land of graveyard to
\nfavourites by fraud. This caused Rs 190 million losses to national
\nkitty.<\/p>\n
EBM approved filing corruption reference against Chaudhry
\nGuftar Ahmed Anjum, former Chief Operating Officer, MEPCO and others.
\nThey have been accused of depositing Rs 200 million of MEPCO in Trust
\nInvestment Bank, Multan alleged abuse of authority.This caused Rs 314
\nmillion losses to national kitty.<\/p>\n
Justice Javed said the top priority of NAB was to conclude mega
\ncorruption cases. NAB officials were pursuing the policy of
\n\u2018Accountability for All\u2019 for elimination of corruption without caring
\nabout any duress. NAB considers elimination of corruption as national
\nresponsibility and NAB officers putting their energies together for
\ncorruption elimination from country.<\/p>\n
Chairman directed to take the investigation, inquiries, and
\ninvestigations in accordance with law, merit within prescribed time
\nand on the basis of concrete evidence available. He directed to take
\nthe cases to logical conclusion so that the looted money could be
\ndeposited in the national exchequer. This will ensure prosperous
\nPakistan. Corrupt would be dealt with as per law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad, Sept. 5 (TBS): The\u00a0National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approved to initiate an inquiry into\u00a0Defence Minister\u00a0Pervez Khattak. The decision was taken in a\u00a0NAB\u00a0meeting held in\u00a0Islamabad. The meeting was headed by\u00a0NAB\u00a0Chairman Javed Iqbal and attended by the board of governors. According to the circular issued by\u00a0NAB, the anti-graft watchdog has approved a total of 14 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77239,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77229\/revisions\/77239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}