Railway Golf Club land scam: NAB wants Gen Qazi on ECL

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Saturday asked the Interior Ministry to place former minister for Railways and Communication and former chief of ISI Lt Ge (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Besides him, the NAB also asked the Interior Ministry to put ex-director Marketing Pakistan Railways Khalid Naqi and Director Hussain construction Muhammad Ramzan on ECL.

Reasoning for putting them on the ECL in a letter to Interior Ministry, the NAB gave a reason that it is alleged that the accused in connivance with each other illegally awarded the lease of 140 acres Railways Golf Club land of Rs2 billion and the investigation was going on against them.

It is to be mentioned that NAB in its meeting of Executive Board gave approval of filling a reference against Javed Ashraf Qazi, ex-secretary Ministry of Railways/chairman Railways Major General (R) Saeed-ul-Zafar, ex-general manager M&S Pakistan Railways Major General (R) Hamid Hassan Butt.

The other accused in the reference were General Manager Operations Pakistan Railways Iqbal Samad Khan, ex-member Finance Pakistan Railways Khursheed Ahmed Khan, ex-director Pakistan Railways Brig (R) Akhtar Ali Baig, Ex-Superintendent Pakistan Railways Abdul Ghaffar, Director M/s Husnain Constructions Muhammad Ramazan Sheikh, Chief Executive Unicon Consulting Services Pervez Latif, Director MAX Corp Development Malaysia Datu Muhammad Kasa bin Aziz and others for allegedly misusing of authority to cause a loss of over Rs2 billion to the national exchequer.

Meanwhile, NAB announced that it would continue performing its duties in accordance with law.

Meanwhile, in a rebuttal, the NAB stated Ahad Cheema was arrested as per law.