ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau Executive Baord Meeting(NAB-EBM) Wednesday accorded approval of conducting 12 inquiries, filingthree corruption references and closing inquiry against former Hafiz AbdulKarim due to absence of evidence.
The EBM chaired by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice(Retd) Javed Iqbal accorded approval to conduct inquiries against AkramKhan Durrani, former Minister for Housing and Works, Sher Azam Wazir,former Provincial Minister and others, Ali Ghulam Nizamani, former memberof Sindh Assembly, Saeed Khan Nizamani, Member Sindh Assembly, MuhammadSohail , fomer DG, Malir Development Authority, Karachi, Asmatullah, Xen,MES, Sialkot Cantt, Almoiz Industries Limited, MM Road, Tehsil Paplan,District Mianawali and others, officers/ officials of Karachi Port Trust,Health Department Government of Sindh, Members Prucurement Committee,Programme Manager Hepatitis Prevention and Control Programme Sindh andothers, Officers/officials of Gomal University Dera Ismael Khan, Managementof Food Department Khuzdar, Ram Chand, Chief Engineer, Sukkur, Abdul Wahab,Sehato, Executive Engineer and others, Public Health Engineering Division,Larkana, Iqbal Sheikh, government Contractor and others, Management ofMessers Chinyon Builders, Private Builders and others, a press release said.
The EBM approved conducting investigation against Atif Kamran, ChiefExecutive Officer, Messers, Unico, Private Limited and others.The EBM accorded approval to file corruption reference against Agha SirajDurrani, Speaker Sindh Assembly and others for allegedly making illegalassets by abusing authority thus causing Rs 600 million losses to nationalexchequer.
The EBM accorded approval of filing corruption reference against Mazhar ulIslam , forment Executive Director Lok Virsa, Islamabad on the accusationsof awarding contract to favourites and inflicting Rs 30.13 million lossesto national kitty.
The EBM okayed filing another corruption reference against Fazal Mannan,former Director Education, FATA and others for making illegally appointingfake teachers and inflicting Rs110.73 million losses to national kitty.
The EBM gave its consent of closing inquiry against Hafiz Abdul Karim,member Senate, former minister for communication. Usman Abdul Karim, AnasAbdul Karim, Dr Najeeb Haider and others including Ghulam Qadir Palejo,former MPA ,Thatta and others, Abdul Sattar Dero, former Managing DirectorPort Qasim Authority and others, officials of Communication and WorksDepartment, messers MechaTech Pvt and others due to absence of evidence.
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The EBM approved closing investigation against owners of messers AMConstruction Company, Private Limited and others due to absence of evidence.
The EBM approved referring the inquiry against management/ officials andothers of Sargodha Capital Market, Management to chief Secretary Punjab andanother inquiry against Rehmattullah Baloch, Chief Executive Officer, KESCOand others to relevant department.Justice Javed Iqbal said taking mega corruption cases to logical conclusionwas his top priority. NAB was pursuing Accountability for All Policyvigorously.
All resources were being utilized to take back the looted money from theplunderers. Corruption was root cause of all ills, eliminating which wasthe collective responsibility of all Pakistanis.
He directed director generals not to spare any corrupt, proclaimedoffenders for concluding their cases as per law. Eliminating corruptionfrom the country was national obligation of NAB and its faith wascorruption free Pakistan.
