|
NAB arrests 2 officials for quake fund plunder
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested two government officials accused of releasing millions of rupees from the PresidentÂ’s Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims to their relatives and undeserving people on fake national identity cards. Saifur Rehman, a patwari, and Mir Dad Khan, a general councilor, were nominated for distributing relief funds among the October 8 earthquake victims in Abbottabad district. Iqbal Ahmad Khan, the NAB prosecutor, told the court that the accused were arrested on the complaints of the earthquake victims, adding that the accused issued funds to people who were not entitled to receive them. Posted by: Fred 2006-03-10 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=145023 |