NAB chairman rejuvenates Bureau’s performance in four months

ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Accountability Bureau Justice (R) Javed Iqbal during his four months in office has rejuvenated NAB with adopting “Accountability for All” policy across the board.

In last four months, chairman NAB had taken notice of various complaints and ordered inquiries on issues including corruption reports in Multan Metro Project, fraud in 56 public limited companies, existence of 435 offshore companies of Pakistanis in Panama and British Virgin Islands, corruption in construction, expansion of Kachhi Kanal, return of housing societies' plundered money reports and arrest of 15 absconders. RDA, ICT and CDA have started placing details of illegal housing societies on website and also informed the people through advertisements.

Furthermore, the chairman has started listening public complaints on every last Thursday of the month and directed DGs of Regional Bureaus to listen public complaints related to corruption in their respective Regional Bureaus.

The response from citizen was very encouraging and they appreciated the initiative of the chairman for opening the doors of NAB for general public.

The chairman NAB had also summoned three Executive Board meetings and authorised filing of references in various Accountability Courts after due deliberation.

Country owed $84 billion while mobile companies were not paying taxes approximately amounting to Rs 400 billion to FBR and the NAB has pointed out FBR to take up the issue.

The chairman had also ordered inquiry against former MPA Jawad Kamran and Sardar Ahmed Ali Dareshik, MPA. NAB ordered inquiry against Quetta Metropolitan Corporation, Provincial Forest Minister Balochistan, Obaidullah Jan Babat, Sindh Secretary Health Dr Fazalullah Pechhu, IG Railway Dr. Mujeebur Rehman and Gwadar Industrial Estate Development Authority for alleged corruption.

The chairman NAB also took notice of wastage of money in Pakistan Steel Mills, sale of PIA aircraft on cheaper rates and authorised filing of a reference against Lt. Gen (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi, former secretary, chairman Railways, former minister for Railways and Communication, Lt Gen ® Saeed Uz Zafar, former secretary, chairman Railways and Major Gen ® Hamid Hassan Butt, former General Manager, Pakistan Railways, Iqbal Samad Khan , former GM PR. Khursheed Ahmed Khan, former member PR, Brig. ® Akhtar Ali Baig, former director Abdul Ghaffar, 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.

A reference was authorised 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.

An investigation against former Chairman CDA Farkhand Iqbal, Member Estate Khalid Mehmood Mirza, and others for alleged misuse of authority and selling of CDA plots on throwaway rates thus causing loss of Rs494.333 million to the national exchequer. 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 Rs435.4 million.

The accused persons were alleged for devouring government funds and making illegal appointments in Sind Small Industry Corporation. Inquiry was authorized 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 Rs75.27 million to national exchequer, inquiry against Tehmash Khan, former MPA for having assets beyond known sources of income and inquiry against Rehmat Baloch, Health Minister Balochistan and others for having assets beyond known sources of income.

Likewise chairman ordered inquiry against MNA captain ® Safdar and former Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Aslam Raisani and complaint verification against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Chief Minister Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Pervaiz Khattak for misusing of the authority for reportedly use of two official helicopters of Chief Minister Khyber Pukhtunkhwa for the personal use to fly over different destinations of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The chairman NAB ordered inquiry against local NGOs and INGOs on the reports of alleged embezzlement.