Rs 570m extortion hangs over new OGDCL GM Stores on November 11, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Petroleum has extended a generous hand to a person accused in a Rs 570 million OGDCL housing society fraud by appointing him the General Manger (GM) Stores in OGDCL. Irfan Babar, son in law of former National Assembly (NA) speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, said to be involved in a Rs 570 […]
NAB to question NHA officials on corruption claims on October 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has called two National Highways Authority (NHA) officials for recording their statements over alleged corruption worth Rs 14 billion in the Karachi-Lahore Motorway project. NHA Chairman Shahid Ashraf Tarrar and General Manager Mukhtar Durrani will appear before the bureau this week. NAB had started investigating the case after […]
Suspicions of corruption regarding funds released to PAC members on October 26, 2016ISLAMABAD: Two members of Public Accounts Committee Sardar Ashiq Gopang and Sahibzada Nazir Sultan are among the list of the politicians to have been given massive public funds by former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf by violating financial and monetary laws, it has been revealed in a report submitted to PAC to investigate the issue. […]
PSO faces Rs1b loss in fuel supply scam on October 24, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan State Oil (PSO) suffered losses worth Rs1 billion in supplying fuel to a private power producing company, Daily Times has learnt. According to documents available with Daily Times, the company continued to receive furnace oil from PSO on credit even when its plant was non-operational. Saba power producing company, located in Sheikhupura, […]
Vehicles worth Rs189m doled out to politicians: audit report on October 22, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Industries and Production doled out 25 luxurious vehicles to politicians and several non-government organisations (NGOs) in violation of rules during the tenure of the previous government. This caused an accumulated loss of more than Rs189 million to the national exchequer, an audit report available with Daily Times has revealed. The documents […]
Security meeting leaks can have pernicious effects on October 20, 2016 ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the National Assembly and senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah has said that sensitive information regarding a national security meeting was leaked at the behest of the government, and such leakages are pernicious to our national security. Khurshid Shah, who is also the chairman of the […]
NAB spares big fish, hooks small ones: PAC on October 19, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has expressed its utter dissatisfaction with the performance of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and observed that the bureau is allegedly striking deals with corrupt people and has miserably failed to recover plundered national wealth. “The NAB is detaining low-rank public employees and sparing powerful corrupt mafia who has […]
Be a lawmaker, enjoy free treatment abroad on October 11, 2016ISLAMABAD: Former National Assembly speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza is among seven lawmakers who enjoyed medical treatment abroad on taxpayers’ money. The government incurred more than Rs 142 million on their treatment, it has been revealed in audit report 2016. The auditor general of Pakistan said in the report that expenditure on the medical treatment of […]
Jamshed Dasti accuses Khawaja Asif of corruption that ‘left WAPDA insolvent’ on September 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) chairman Maulana Sheerani assailed the Nawaz Sharif led-federal government for not incorporating their recommendations into the constitution of Pakistan and alleged that government was breaching its promises and not fulfilling its constitutional obligations. During the proceeding of the national assembly on Monday , Maulana Sheerani, firebrand speaker of JUI […]
MP&NR; hands over evidences to FIA on September 4, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MP&NR) has handed over the proofs and evidences to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general regarding the pilfering of crude oil, worth Rs 100 billion, by a Hungarian company. In light of these proofs, FIA would now move the investigation forward about the theft, which caused […]