Rs 1578 million paid to project directors declared illegal on May 27, 2016ISLAMABAD: Project Directors appointed at New Islamabad International Airport and payment made worth of more than Rs 1578 million to them have been declared illegal, it has been revealed in audit report submitted to Parliamentary Committee for perusal of Civil Aviation Authority. Former Secretary Civil Aviation Division is likely to be questioned for appointment of […]
Foreign Office allocates Rs 0.5 million for Kashmir cause on May 26, 2016ISLAMABAD: The foreign office has allocated two million rupees as funds for the purchase of Mercedeze Benz car tyres and 0.5 million rupees for the promotion of the Kashmir cause in the world. This has been revealed in an audit report submitted to the parliament for scrutiny. The author of this report has asked the […]
Cost of Hazara Motorway enhanced to Rs 35 billion on May 25, 2016ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz led federal government has enhanced the cost of E 35 Hazara Motoway project from Rs 30 billion to Rs 35 billion without seeking approval of competent forums, well informed sources said. The federal government to please his party workers has also changed the design of the project as it has […]
83 LPG companies including Aitzazs wife benefited from Musharraf quota on May 24, 2016ISLAMABAD: As many as two dozen Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) companies benefited from Musharraf’s LP G quota system and minted huge sum of money at the cost of public resources by using their political position. Company of wife of senior Pakistan People Party PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan is among the coteries of other aristocratic personalities […]
Corruption scam in Pakistans Jakarta and Tokyo embassies on May 22, 2016ISLAMABAD: The National Aaccountability Bureau (NAB )has completed its inquiry into the multi-million dollar corruption scam pertaining to illegal sale of Pakistan Embassy buildings in Jakarta Indonesia and Tokyo, Japan, a well informed source told the Daily Times. A NAB official confirmed that huge corruption was committed in the sale and the concrete evidence of […]
Campaign against corruption a conspiracy: Daniyal on May 21, 2016ISLAMABAD: Danyal Aziz, a ruling party parliamentarian and close aide of Nawaz Sharif has stunned the National Assembly on Friday by claiming that unprecedented campaign against corruption is being unleashed in Pakistan that is part of a conspiracy being hatched against present democratic setup. Under well knitted plan orchestrated by anti democratic forces the name […]
NAB completes probe against 83 officers on May 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has completed inquiry against its 83 senior officers on corruption charges, a well informed source confided to this scribe on the condition of anonimity. 83 senior officers were allegedly involved in minting money by harassing accused persons whose cases were being inquired by NAB. Chairman National Accountability Bureau, Chaudry […]
NAB catches another big fish; recovers Rs 50 million from Cheemas account on May 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) conducted a raid on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and arrested Director Shafqat Cheema for his alleged involvement in corruption, human smuggling and theft of machine-readable passports. The NAB said in a statement issued after Cheema’s arrest that the accused accumulated assets beyond his known sources of income. It […]
Safdar calls for investigation into income of media houses on May 14, 2016ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is hit hard by the reports of Panama Papers involving Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, unleashed criticism on the independent media during a session of the lower house of the parliament on Friday. Captain (Retd) Muhammad Safdar, Prime Minister Sharif’s son-in-law and a member of […]
Parliamentarians from FATA blast govt over uplift plans on May 10, 2016ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarian from Federal Administration Territory Area FATA blasted the Nawaz Sharif government on Tuesday for depriving the people from the social and uplift scheme being executed under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects. A firebrand parliamentarian from P ML(N) ranks also hit the government for unscheduled power load shedding in Sindh and warned […]