600 Sindh MPAs, bureaucrats on NAB radar
List submitted to SHC shows 15 lawmakers are being probed for corruption. PHOTO: ONLINE
KARACHI: The inhabitant anti-graft watchdog is conducting inquiries and investigations opposite some-more than 600 persons, including 15 lawmakers, mostly sitting MPs belonging to a PPP, in Sindh, it was suggested on Tuesday.
The avowal came in a list submitted to a incomparable dais of a Sindh High Court by NAB’s prosecutor-general during a conference of matching petitions severe Sindh government’s anti-corruption law that clipped NAB’s powers in a province.
Interestingly, emissary executive of a provincial anti-corruption establishment, Dr Agha Aijaz Ali Pathan, is also confronting swindle exploration underneath a NAB Ordinance 1999, that a statute PPP is opposite to and has repealed.
The list showed 3 sitting legislators — dual belonging to a MQM and one to a PML-N.
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According to a list, PPP lawmakers confronting swindle allegations embody Sindh Law and Prisons Minister Ziaul Hasan Lanja and Livestock, Fisheries and Environment Minister Muhammad Ali Malkani.
The other MPAs in a list embody former information and internal supervision apportion Sharjeel Inam Memon, former apportion excise, taxation and wildlife Gian Chand Israni, former Zakat and Ushr apportion Dost Muhammad Rahimon, Dr Abdul Sattar Rajpar, Haji Abdul Rauf Khoso and Aijaz Ali Helepoto.
The former legislators embody ex-petroleum confidant and former MNA Dr Asim Hussain and ex-MPAs Nasrullah Baloch, Ghulam Qadir Palijo and Agha Tariq.
The MQM’s sitting MPAs Abdul Rauf Siddiqui and M Adil Siddiqui also face crime inquiries while PML-N’s Ejaz Shah Shirazi is also being probed.
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Also on a list is former Karachi city Nazim, now personality of a Pak Sarzameen Party, Mustafa Kamal.
The list includes officers from roughly all departments of a provincial supervision and agencies of a internal governments.
Starting from a top, Sindh’s tip proxy Muhammad Siddique Memon to a watchman, Ghulam Mujataba, during a Dadu’s supervision school, seem on a list.
On Aug 16, a SHC had authorised a NAB to continue tentative inquiries and investigations in Sindh compartment serve orders.
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The NAB prosecutor-general was also destined to contention a finish list of a sitting and former lawmakers, portion and late officers of a sovereign and Sindh governments.
The anti-graft watchdog’s tip prosecutor filed a report, display that 21 inquiries and dual investigations are underway opposite a sitting and former lawmakers in Sindh, since hearing in dual cases was pending.
It showed that 712 inquiries and 782 investigations were tentative opposite supervision officers. Trials in 982 cases – 572 in Karachi and 210 in Sukkur – were tentative in a courts.
The NAB list serve disclosed that 37 inquiries or investigations were tentative opposite sovereign supervision officers and hearing in 13 cases was tentative before a endangered courts.
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