Islamabad: (Parliament Times) Honorable Justice Mr. Javed Iqbal chaired Executive Board meeting of NAB at NAB headquarters. During the meeting authorized various inquiries, investigations and filing of reference against the accused persons on alleged involvement in corruption and causing multi billion rupee losses to the national exchequer.
The Executive Board authorized filing of a reference against Lt. Gen Retd Javed Ashraf Qazi, former secretary, chairman Railways, former minister for Railways and Communication, Lt Gen Retd Saeed Uz Zafar, former secretary, chairman railways and Major Gen Retd Hamid Hassan Butt, former General Manager, Pakistan Railways, Iqbal Samad Khan , former GM PR. Khursheed Ahmed Khan, former member PR, Brig. Retd Akhtar Ali Baig, former director Abdul Ghaffar, former superintendent Muhammad Ramzan Shaikh, Director Husnain Construction Company, Pervaiz Latif Qureshi, Chief Executive Unicon Consulting Services, Datu Muhammad Bin Kasa Bin Adda Aziz. Director Max Corp, Development Malaysia and others for misuse of authority and causing over Rs 2 billion losses to national exchequer.
The board accorded approval for filing of reference against Tariq Hameed, former Chairman WAPDA ,Muhammad Anwar Khalid, former Member Power WAPDA, Muhammad Mushtaq, former Member Water WAPDA , Imtiaz Anjum, former Member Finance WAPDA and others for misuse of authority and award of contract to150MW Rental Power Project to M/s General Energy Pvt Limited in violation of NEPRA, PPRA and ECC rules thus causing billion of rupees loss to national exchequer.
The Board authorized Complaint Verification against President PMDC in connivance with Minister for National Health Services Ms Saira Afzal Tarar for alleged corrupt practices in reorganization of 12 medical colleges and corrupt practices in PMDC matters.
NAB Executive Board authorized investigation against former Chairman CDA Farkhand Iqbal, Member Estate Khalid Mehmood Mirza, former Member Finance CDA
Javed Jahangir and others for alleged misuse of authority and selling of CDA plots on through away rates thus causing loss of Rs. 494.333 million to the national exchequer.
The Executive Board accorded approval for conducting two separate investigations against former Provincial Minister Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, Muhammad Adil Siddiqui and
Dr. Sarvat Fahim, Mushtaq Ali Leghari, Mehmood Ahmed, Ghulam Nabi Mehar, Abdul
Haye Dhamra, Syed Imdad Ali Shah, Syed Umeed Ali Shah and others for misuse of authority and causing losses up to national exchequer of Rs. 435.4 million. The above mentioned accused persons were alleged for devouring government funds and making illegal appointments in Sind Small Industry Corporation.
The Board approved inquiry against former Director General Peshawar Development Authority Sahibzada Saeed Ahmed, Syed Zahir Shah, former DG, Sareer Muhammad, Director General, Muhammad Tariq, former General Manager, Abdul. Haleem Piracha, former Director General and others for misuse of authority in allotment of plots and adjacent land in violation of rules causing losses of Rs.75.27 million to national exchequer. The meeting approved inquiry against Tehmash Khan, former Nazim/MPA, for having assets beyond known sources of income.
The board authorized Inquiry against Rehmat Baloch, Health Minister Balochistan and others for having assets beyond known sources of income. The Executive Board decided to send back the inquiry against the management of PESCO to relevant department for legal action as per law.
The Executive board decided to close two inquiries. One inquiry against Dr Muhammad
Ishaq Fani, former program distance learning education, Bahauddin Zakaria University,
Multan and second inquiry against officers of Frontier Works Organization (FWO) and
National Highway Authority (NHA) due to absence of evidence.
At the end, Honorable Justice Mr. Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB said that eradication of corruption is the top most priority of NAB. NAB officers should conduct Inquiries and investigations on merit and transparently having solid evidence as per law and no any discrimination will be made with anyone.
