The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday assessed the latest progress in corruption cases against Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, Shehbaz Sharif, Yusuf Raza Gilani and others during a meeting chaired by its chairman, Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal.
The meeting also reviewed the progress in the Reko Diq project reference filed in the accountability court in Quetta, sugar subsidy scam, art-napping of precious and rare paintings from Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), China cutting in the surroundings of Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum and illegal construction and infringement of building by-laws by Karachi Cosmopolitan Authority.
According to a press release, the meeting was informed that out of 179 mega corruption cases, NAB had filed 97 corruption references in different accountability courts, while 57 references had been taken to logical conclusion, while 10 inquiries and 15 investigations were currently under process.
The meeting reviewed the progress in the probes against Shaukat Aziz, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Nawab Aslam Khan Raisani, Sardar Sanaullah Zerhi, Syed Murad Ali Shah, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Dr Asim Hussain, Ahsan Iqbal, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Sarwar Khan, Noorul Haq Qadri, Dr Zafar Mirza, Babar Ghauri, Manzoor Wasan, Agha Siraj Durrani, Syed Khursheed Shah, Jam Khan Shoro, Sharjeel Inam Memon, Adil Siddique, Waseem Akhtar, Sardar Ashiq Gopang, Barjees Tahir, Ejaz Jakhrani, Rana Sanaullah, Sabtain Khan, Sher Ali Gorchani, Aleem Khan, Ahmed Khan Baloch, Sahibzada Mehmood Zeb, Syed Asif Akhtar Hashmi, Sher Azam Khan, Amir Muqam, Capt (retd) Safdar, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Usman Saifullah, Anwar Saifullah, Asfandyaar Kakar, Asim Kurd, Saadat Anwar, Rehmat Baloch, Hamza Shahbaz, Suleman Shahbaz, Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz, Ahad Cheema, Fawad Hassan Fawad, Amjad Ali Khan, Siddique Memon, Manzoor Kaka, Shahidul Islam, Uzma Adil, Saeed Ahmed Khan, Tahir Basharat Cheema, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Anwar Majeed, Hussain Lawai, Ghulam Mustafa Phal, Farkhand Iqbal, Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, Kamran Lashari, Ghulam Sarwar Sindhu, Murtaza Malik, Akhtar Nawaz Ganjera, Kamran Shafi, Mufti Ehsan, Ghulam Rasool Ayubi, Iftikhar Rahim, Atif Zaman and others.
NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal said the anti-graft watchdog is pursuing the policy of accountability for all and strongly believes in conducting the inquiries and investigations into white-collar crimes on scientific lines that’s too after collecting solid evidence as per law.
He said the apex anti-corruption organisation has been assigned a gigantic task of eradication of corruption and to recover looted money from corrupt elements.
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