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ISLAMABAD: A letter has been sent to Switzerland’s Attorney-General to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) lawyer Abid Zuberi told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The move came after the Supreme Court ordered the NAB to revive all corruption cases after it threw out a controversial amnesty for Zardari, [...]
GENEVA: Pakistan has not asked Swiss authorities to reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geneva’s public prosecutor said on Wednesday. In any case, Zardari enjoys immunity from prosecution as a head of state, Prosecutor-General Daniel Zappelli told Reuters. “I have not received any request,” Zappelli said, commenting on news from Islamabad that [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau is sending its team to the United Kingdom to bring back 12 boxes containing records of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases, sources told The Statesmen. The NAB team headed by its Chief of Staff, Islamabad, Muhammad Ashfaq will soon leave for London to take into custody the record lying [...]
ISLAMABAD: While the Supreme Court has taken note of how the convicted FIA officer Ahmed Riaz Sheikh got a top job, the NAB is treating him with velvet gloves and has not yet reopened his case although he enjoys no immunity like his friend President Asif Zardari. As cases of all other NRO beneficiaries have [...]
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over the issue of who will write the letter to Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President
ISLAMABAD: The ministry of law stopped the National Accountability Bureau from directly approaching the Swiss government for reopening of money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in compliance with the Supreme Court order. In a letter sent to NAB Chairman Naveed Ahsan, the ministry said since the bureau acted as a prosecuting agency while [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was startled to learn that NAB had a legal claim on 40 per cent share in the
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau Chairman in discussions with the government has called for an expedition on the dates of the Swiss case against President Asif Ali Zardari here on Monday. Earlier in the day, Informed sources told our correspondent the NAB chief was said to be in a quandary over the SC order for [...]
Two things: first, there can’t be democracy without transparency. Second, democracy can’t allow the murder of her own mother. No government, therefore, is a democracy unless it ‘implements a set of policies and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility and understandability’ of each and every entity within the government. A ‘democracy’ is not a [...]
ISLAMABAD: Navid Ahsan, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman issued orders for immediately terminating services of Additional Prosecutor General Abdul Baseer
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday took strong exception to the current National Accountability Bureau
PESHAWAR: The inquiry committee investigating the fraudulent withdrawal and embezzlement of about one billion rupees in many cases, including purchase of a helicopter by the Establishment & Administration Department, NWFP, could not fix responsibility and submit a report during the stipulated time as the main accused had refused to appear before the probe body, official [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government cannot reopen the Swiss Cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, as it is the parliament and the constitution that has granted immunity to the President. He also added that the government will implement the Supreme Court’s verdict on the NRO in letter and spirit. [...]
KARACHI: The Customs authorities have unearthed a big scam wherein duty free shops had evaded millions of rupees in duty and taxes by operating as agents for open market traders. This huge revenue loss was detected during an audit carried out by the directorate general of Post-clearance Audit (PCA) of both the Karachibased duty free [...]
ISLAMABAD: A lawyer from Karachi has filed a reference before the Election Commission (ECP) challenging the eligibility of President Asif Ali Zardari to contest the presidential elections in the light of the detailed verdict of the Supreme Court declaring the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) as unconstitutional and illegal. The “constitutional reference” has been moved by [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) hopes that the former Chairman of the Bank of Punjab (BoP), Hamesh Khan, arrested in the United States, will be deported to Pakistan by the end of February to face corruption charges. “We strongly feel that the American judge, seized with NAB’s request of extradition of Hamesh Khan, who [...]
اسلام آباد … سپریم کورٹ آف پاکستان کے احکامات کی روشنی میں وفاقی دارالحکومت میں صدر مملکت آصف علی زرداری کے اثاثے منجمد کرنے کے ابتدائی احکامات جاری کرنے کے بعد قومی احتساب بیورو (نیب) نے خوف زدہ ہو کر اثاثے منجمد کرنے کے وہ احکامات چیف سیکریٹری سندھ کو جاری کرنے سے روک دیئے [...]
PARIS: A French judge probing a Pakistan bomb attack that killed 11 French engineers has asked Britain and Switzerland to provide whatever information they have on allegations of embezzlement by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, legal sources here said Friday. Judge Marc Trevidic made the request to help him advance his probe into claims the [...]
ISLAMABAD: On the directives of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the Islamabad administration has ordered to freeze 2,460 kanals of Sangjani land, sold by a person named Nasir Khan and restore it at pre-Oct 5, 2007 position. Nasir Khan is allegedly a front man of President Asif Zardari. Sources said NAB had issued the letter to [...]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan who was a member of the 17-judge Supreme Court bench which declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) unconstitutional has stressed the need of also punishing the maker of the ordinance for perpetuating corruption and violating the Constitution. “The maker (former president Pervez Musharraf) of the ordinance should also be [...]
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