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WB to loan $100m for Karachi’s water supply, sanitation projects
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is expected to approve a loan of $100 million that will improve access to safe water and sanitation services in Karachi, and increase financial and operational performance of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB). A World Bank team will start appraising the project submitted by the Sindh government later this […]
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Investigation launched into 20 cases: NAB
QUETTA: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Balochistan, in a quarterly report released on Sunday, said the anti-graft watchdog had pursued 20 cases in the province. “During the first three months of 2019, NAB Balochistan submitted six references against the officers of irrigation, finance and education department while it started 20 investigations upon public complaints,” the […]
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Amid complaints of corruption, irregularities; OPF reluctant to act
Amid claims being made by incumbent government to build a corruption-free country, the Oversea Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) management seems reluctant to take action against officials involved in financial embezzlement of millions of rupees and other irregularities. The documents available with Daily Times stated that the authorities deducted corruption of Rs 3.12 million in OPF Girls […]
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NAB independently working, using authorities for streamlining system
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood Thursday said that national accountability bureau (NAB), was working in the country independently. The NAB was using the authorities without any political pressure for streamlining the system and wiping out the corruption from the society, he said while talking to a private news channel. Commenting on corruption charges against […]
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NAB grills ex-housing minister Durrani
ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau investigated former minister for housing Akram Durrani in three different cases. The NAB Rawalpindi team asked questions from Durrani in illegal allotment of plots, assets beyond known sources of income and illegal appointments during his tenure. The former housing minister requested the NAB team to provide some time for […]
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NAB probes charges against its own team
MULTAN: The intelligence wing of the National Accountability Bureau is probing allegations of Rs7 million bribe which a bureau’s team received from a [main] suspect for closure of an inquiry. According to official sources, the complaint has been lodged by a NAB officer who alleged that the bribe was taken to recommend closure of the […]
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FIA seals hospital, four held
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) anti-corruption circle on Wednesday night raided a bungalow in Bahria Town Phase 8 in which a private hospital was being operated. Four people, including an Omani woman patient, were taken into custody while the hospital was sealed. According to sources, an FIA team led by deputy director Mohammad Kamran […]
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ANF arrests 32 smugglers
Rawalpindi – The Anti Narcotics Force has carried out operations against drug mafia across the country seizing huge cache of narcotics and rounding up the smugglers, ANF Headquarters Spokesman informed The Nation on Thursday. The ANF conducted 25 strikes against drug mafia in different parts of country and recovered 3145kg narcotics and arrested 32 suspected […]
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CDA sells eight commercial plots for Rs4.048b
ISLAMABAD: Despite an underwhelming second round of auction for residential plots in the city, the top civic body of the federal capital managed to complete a transaction of eight commercial and industrial plots worth Rs4.048 billion on the third day of its auction of plots. Like the residential plots offered on the first two days […]
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NAB files fourth reference in illegal allotments case
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a fourth reference against former Karachi Development Authority (KDA) director Nasir Abbas and others in an accountability court on Wednesday in the case pertaining to illegal allotments of 13 plots in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. The administrative judge of the accountability courts in Karachi accepted the reference for hearing. The NAB […]
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