ex-DG Hyderabad Development Authority, (currently chief accounts officer HDA) in connection with the Hyderabad Cooperative Society fraud case.
In 2014 as the DG HDA, he had allegedly allowed the Hyderabad Railway Cooperative Society to start work on 19 acres of land. He is alleged to have fraudulently passed a master plan, annexed five acres of land (worth Rs1.5 billion) of TMA, Lateefabad, and allowed for the society to be built on 24 acres of land.It is said that certain members of the bureaucracy have also started sharing information of alleged corruption and misuse of authority with the NAB as well as other security agencies.
Besides NAB, the Rangers have also started a campaign against the mafia active in Sindh. As reported by The News on Friday, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has been provided by the Rangers a list of around 24 politicians, members of bureaucracy, police officers and others who are allegedly involved, directly or indirectly, in “financial terrorism” that is believed to be the major contributing factor in crime and terrorism in Karachi and Sindh.
The military establishment and Rangers want the PPP government in Sindh to choke all the sources of finances for terrorists, mafias and criminal gangs in Karachi for which those harbouring these mafias, whether in the government, amongst politicians or in the bureaucracy, should be fixed without any fear and favour.
Since the Rangers as well as NAB’s operation is bound to hit some influential PPP ministers and leaders, some People’s Party leaders have been asked to issue statements against NAB, Rangers and even the federal government. The political response of the PPP, it is said, is expected to gather momentum in the days to come.
However, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his meeting with the governor and Sindh chief minister underscored the need to eliminate all these mafias from Karachi because of their deep link with terrorism and crime in the city.
According to a federal government source, the Centre would continue its focus on the Karachi situation and would back the Rangers and other law enforcing agencies to eliminate the mafias in Karachi. However, the PPP’s legitimate right to rule would not be challenged.
It is said that instead of going for any confrontation, the irritants would be resolved amicably and politically without any compromise on the objective of establishing durable peace in Karachi.