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NAB reference against ex-hospital staff
QUETTA : The National Accountability of Bureau (NAB) Balochistan has filed corruption reference against former officials of Kidney Centre Balochistan after causing a loss of over Rs50 million to the national exchequer. The NAB had filed reference against ex-secretary for Labour department, Quetta Workers Welfare Board chairman Khuwaja Muhammad Siddique, former secretary of Welfare Board […]
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NAB takes Saad Rafique to parliament for NA committee meeting
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique was taken to the Parliament Lodges by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team on Tuesday morning after his production orders were issued by the speaker National Assembly a day ago. Rafique will attend the meeting of NA Standing Committee for Law and Justice around noon. The NAB has […]
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SC turns down Bahria Town’s Rs 250bn offer to avoid NAB reference
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bahria Town’s offer to deposit an amount of Rs 250 billion in the dam fund to avoid legal proceedings for illegally acquiring land for its projects in Karachi, Islamabad and Murree, media reports said. As an implementation bench of the apex court started hearing into a case pertaining to […]
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NAB finds irregularities in construction of overhead bridge
SUKKUR: The NAB Sukkur in its inquiry into the irregularities in the construction of an overhead bridge (Luqman Bridge) on a railway crossing in Khairpur has found several defects in the construction and identified massive irregularities in design, engineering and use of substandard materials. The overhead bridge was built from 2010 to 2014, at the […]
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NAB summons Pervaiz Elahi in forest land case
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in connection with its probe into illegal allotment of forest land in Rawalpindi to a private housing society during his last tenure as Punjab chief minister. A senior NAB official told The News that the Bureau is probing the former Punjab […]
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JIT report accuses Nawaz of illegally allotting Pakpattan land
A new report presented in the Supreme Court on Tuesday (SC) by the joint investigation team (JIT) – constituted to probe the transfer of Pakpattan shrine land – accused ousted premier Nawaz Sharif of illegally allotting Auqaf Department land. Nawaz had earlier denied the charges and had claimed that he was involved in no such […]
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Rs 340m recovered so far, FBR tells SC
The Supreme Court (SC) was on Monday informed that an amount of Rs 270.25 million had been recovered during the last month and Rs 17 million would be recovered during the current month. “The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) provided us data of 895 individuals, out which 16 had availed previous government’s tax amnesty scheme,” an […]
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FIA unearths properties of 96 more Pakistanis in UAE
As part of an ongoing investigation against individuals having assets beyond known sources of income, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed properties of 96 more Pakistanis in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the latest report by FIA, 1,211 Pakistanis own 2,154 properties in the UAE, adding that it has served notices to […]
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Offshore property case: Aleema Khan denies she amassed assets ‘illegally’
ISLAMABAD: The incumbent prime minister’s sister Aleema Khan informed the Supreme Court on Monday during the offshore properties case hearing that she did not amass assets abroad through illegal channels, ARY News reported. She appeared before the top court today along with her lawyer Salman Akram Raja. During the hearing, she informed the court that […]
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Man imprisoned for monetary fraud
HAFIZABAD-A renowned landlord of Meerakh Bhattian, Mian Karam Dad Bhatti, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined a total Rs30,000 by Pindi Bhattian Magistrate Waseem Anjum on the charge of issuing bogus cheque of Rs120 million to Major (r) Mian Qadir Buksh Bhatti Rasulpur Tarar. Major (r) Mian Qadir Bakhsh Bhatti of Rasulpur […]
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