Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Wafaqi Mohtasib has commenced to provide shelter to the officers involved in corruption of billion rupees.

The institution which was made to provide justice to oppressed people has made the record of injustice, as Federal Ombudsman has appointed dozens of its commissioners on hefty pay and allowances in sheer violation of rules and regulations.

When the news regarding illegal appointments on high salaries were surfaced, NAB has started probe on high scale.

The Daily Times learnt that the central culprit in the Pir Sohawa scam and former Chairman CDA Inayat Elahi has been appointed as Commissioner Mohtasib Secretariat on heavy pay and allowances by Wafaqi Mohtasib Sulman Farooqi. The most important factor is that Elahi who was himself involved in corruption of billion rupees and enquiry is also underway against him would take action on the complaints against CDA.

Another dishonest officer against whom NAB is carrying out investigation for embezzlement of billion rupees is former Chairman OGRA Saeed Ahmed Khan, who is also wanted to the NAB and he took refuge in the Wafaqi Mohtasib.

One more former Secretary Information and Broadcasting Taimoor Azmat Usman, who is involved in heavy corruption and NAB is also doing enquiry against him .He is working in Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretariat on Rs 300,000 monthly salary on contractual basis after retirement.

According to sources Sulman Farooqi has inducted 19 high ranked officers after their retirement including Ijaz Ahmed Qureshi, Raza Arshad, Captain(R) Agha Nadim, S. M. Tahir, Javed Akhtar, Muhammad Ayub Khan Tareen, Syed Anwar Mehmood, Farrukh Ayub Tareen, Abdul Hameed, Naimat Ullah Abid, Mohsin Rizvi, Syed Yasin Ahmed, Javed Akhtar Shiekh and Maj Gen(R) Haroon Sikandar Pasha. Enquiries are lying pending against all these officers in NAB. They all were recruited in Wafaqi Mohtasib against law.

The sitting Wafaqi Mohtasib Sulman Farooqi is himself wanted by NAB in several corruption references. He was close to former President Asif Ali Zardari and he had appointed him on the post of Wafaqi Mohtasib.

Those who were appointed in the Mohtasib Secretariat as Commissioners in violation of rules and regulation are included Syed Mohsin Asad, Asif Hayat Malik, Malik Muhammad Iqbal, Mubashira Nighat Bano, Tauqeer Ahmed Faiq, Abdul Basit, Anis-ud-Din Ahmed, Farzana Jabeen, Yasmeen Masood, Ishaq Laghari, Shujat Abbas, Zarina S Zaidi, Muhammad Yamin, Badshah Gul Wazir, Ghulam Farooq, Adalat Khan, Muhammad Aslam Pathan, Liaqaut Ali, Abdul Ghafoor Junejo, Muhammad Sarwar, S. M. Athar, Chaudhary Abdul Hameed, Musaddaq Muhammad Khan, Qurban Ali, Ijaz Ahmed Buttar, Shez Zaheer Ahmed Khan, Syed Dildar Abbas, Abdul Karim, Ahsan Ullah Babar, Walayat Ali Khan and Masoodi Farooq Babar.