*ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior on Friday placed the names of as manyas 23 provincial bureaucrats said to be close to the Sharif family on theExit Control List (ECL). *
The names of the provincial officials have been put on the no-fly list onthe request of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Those who face travel restrictions are Quaid-i-Azam Solar Pawer Plant CEONajam Shah, Primary and Secondary Health Secretary Ali Jan Khan, ParagonCity Finance Director Farhan Ali and Manager Shahzad Waheed, PowerDevelopment Company CEO Syed Farrukh Shah, Gujranwala Waste ManagementCompany CEO Wasim Ajmal, former chairman Faisalabad Industrial CompanyLateef and Aslam Khan.
Others included Lahore Waste MCompany anagement officials Jameel Ahmed,Rana Muhammad Arif, former CEO Waseem Ajmal, and managing director KhalidMajeed.
Earlier this week, an accountability court granted 14-day physical remandof former top officials of the Punjab’s Saaf Pani Company – EngineerQamarul Islam Raja and Waseem Ajmal Chaudhry – in a case pertaining to thealleged financial irregularities in the company.
Mr. Raja – former chairman of the company – was taken into custody by theNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday hours after his nominationas candidate of the PML-N from NA-59 and PP-10 Rawalpindi constituencies.
He has been fielded against disgruntled party leader Chaudhry Nisar AliKhan on NA-59.
The Bureau in a statement said Raja, who was one of the members of thecompany’s procurement committee, allegedly awarded contracts of 84 watertreatment plants at excessive rates to favourites.
It said: “In a deceitful manner, the accused (Raja) enhanced the estimatesof amounts of plants in bidding documents and later awarded the contract tothe KSP Pumps Company as in-charge procurement committee.”
Mr. Chaudhry – former CEO of the Company, had allegedly changed the biddingdocuments of projects after completion of the bidding process in violationof Punjab Procurement Rules 2014.
He is also accused of illegally approving the installation of eightfiltration plants at Tehsil Dunyapur.
It merits mention here that the Supreme Court had ordered a probe into theSaaf Pani Company after Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Saeed revealed that asingle drop of water couldn’t be made available to the people of theprovince despite the government having spent Rs4 billion on the Saaf PaniProject.
The chief secretary told the judges that so far Rs4 billion had been spenton Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC), set up with an aim to ensure supply ofpotable water to the people, but not a single drop of water could besupplied.
The chief justice of Pakistan reiterated