NAB denies filing reference against former DRAP official

Author: APP

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB)  Wednesday denied authorising filing a reference against former Drug Pricing Committee Chairman, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Arshad Farooq Farhim.

A NAB spokesman while giving clarification of news items circulated in a section of media about former  Drug Pricing Committee Chairman  DRAP, said the anti-graft watchdog had authorised initiating inquiry against Arshad in 2013 whereas reference against  Arshad was filed in 2016.

The incumbent management of NAB had not authorised filing reference or conducting inquiry against the former drug pricing committee chairman DRAP, he added.

Share
Leave a Comment

Recent Posts

  • Pakistan

PIA Operations Resume Smoothly in United Arab Emirates

In a welcome development for travelers, flights operated by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the…

1 hour ago
  • Business

RemoteWell, Godaam Technologies and Digitt+ present Top Ideas at Zar Zaraat agri-startup competition

“Agriculture, as a sector, hold the key to prosperity, food security, and the socioeconomic upliftment…

2 hours ago
  • Editorial

Wheat Woes

Months after a witty, holier-than-thou, jack-of-all-trades caretaker government retreated from the executive, repeated horrors from…

6 hours ago
  • Editorial

Modi’s Tricks

For all those hoping to see matured Pak-India relations enter a new chapter of normalisation,…

6 hours ago
  • Cartoons

TODAY’S CARTOON

6 hours ago
  • Op-Ed

Exceptionally Incendiary Rhetoric

Narendra Modi is seeking the premiership of the country for the record third time. The…

7 hours ago