LAHORE: Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique lands into serious troublesas NAB has summoned him on March 22 in relation with the Paragon Housingsociety case.

Earlier Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad hadappeared before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore and recordedhis statement.

Fawad had been earlier summoned by the bureau on Thursday (yesterday) forhis alleged role in illegally awarding the contract for the Ashiana-e-IqbalHousing Scheme of the provincial government but he failed to appear.

A three-member NAB team questioned the senior bureaucrat at its Lahoreoffice, after which it gave him a questionnaire and asked him to appearagain on Monday.

According to NAB, the contract for the project was won by a constructioncompany titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons.

However, the anti-graft body stated, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharifand his aides awarded it instead to Lahore Casa Developers – a proxy groupof Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by RailwaysMinister Saad Rafique.

Fawad, who was a senior bureaucrat in the Punjab government at the time,levelled charges of wrongdoings against Chaudhry Latif and Sons in orderfor the contract to be awarded to Casa Developers.