PMDC to cooperate with NAB in inquiry

Islamabad : The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has offered cooperation to the

National Accountability Bureau in probe into the alleged corruption in the registration of private medical colleges.

The NAB Executive Board meeting presided over by Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal had authorised an inquiry against the health minister and former PMDC president Dr Shabbir Lehri into the complaint of alleged corruption in the re-organisation of 12 private medical colleges and other PMDC affairs.

First the health minister publicly assured the NAB of her cooperation in the inquiry saying the ministry will provide all required documents NAB if required by it from the ministry, and now, the PMDC has announced it will help the anti-graft body do the job.