NAB decides pending case against Ishaq Dar
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ISLAMABAD: (APP) National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to file five corruption references.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Executive Board of the bureau, which was chaired by Qamar Zaman Chaudhry.
A reference will be filed against Arshad Farooq Faheem and others for exorbitant and illegal increase in prices of drugs, causing a loss of about 693 million rupees to the national exchequer.
The second reference will be filed against former Balochistan food minister Asfand Yar Kakar for alleged embezzlement in government wheat amounting to about 467 million rupees.
Other references will be filed against former mayor Gujranwala Municipal Corporation Muhammad Aslam Butt, Vice Chancellor Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Dr. Ihsan Ali and others, and former Additional Secretary Senate Syed Musarrat Abbas and others.
The Bureau also authorized inquiry against former MNA Shafqat Shah Shirazi and former MPA Ejaz Shah Shirazi of Thatta for alleged accumulation of assets beyond known sources of income. Another inquiry was authorized against Sindh Minister for Ushr and Zakat Dost Mohammad Rahimoon on similar charges.
The Board also decided to close investigation against Minister for Finance and former Minister for Commerce Ishaq Dar which was pending for closure since 2001.
Meanwhile, spokesman of the Minister has said it is a matter of grave concern that NAB has kept pending an anonymous complaint against Ishaq Dar for 15 years. The complaint was processed for closure since 2001 and left pending for political victimization.
