ISLAMABAD: As the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) summoned former president and leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari in yet another case, the opposition party MNA termed the move an attempt to malign his reputation and filed a petition before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to get pre-arrest bail.
A division bench of the IHC comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Aamer Farooq will hear the plea on Tuesday (today).
The bureau issued a call-up notice to the former president on June 15, asking him to appear before NAB team on June 24 in connection with investigation into the ownership of an apartment in New York.
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NAB initiates inquiry into 3,500 acres of state land fraud
June 28, 2021
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Karachi, has initiated an inquiry into an alleged mega fraud of changing the ownership of 3,500 acres of state land of district Thatta to private persons.
The NAB sources said that the said forgery had been committed by a mafia with the connivance of some corrupt officials of deputy commissioner s office, Thatta, and Sindh Board of Revenue.
In an official letter addressed to an individual Rasool Bux Jakhro, resident of the same district Thatta, it was described that the competent authority of NAB has taken cognizance of the offence of corruption and corrupt practices of forgery and committing fraud in the record of rights pertaining to 3,500 acres of Deh Kohistan, Taluka Jhampir, district Thatta, and then manipulating the same through further sale to owners of a Karachi based private builder which according to the Bureau is cognizable offence under Section
In a major development, NAB asked the govt to give it access to local and offshore tax records of all politically exposed persons, bureaucrats and their families.
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