ISLAMABAD: The government has sought return of official (blue) passports of those KRL employees who were investigated or are still being probed. A senior KRL official telephoned members of the scientists' families to ensure compliance with instructions earlier sent in writing in this regard. Copies of the passports of some of these scientists have already been submitted. It is also learnt that members of such officials' families have also been asked to make their passports handy as well because the government might need them. Besides Dr AQ Khan, Dr Ghulam Yasin Chohan, Saeed Ahmed, Dr Muhammad Atta, Muhammad Fahim, Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf, Riaz Ahmed Chohan, FH Hashmi, Raja Arshad Mehboob, M Shamimur Rehman, Raja Gul Jabbar, Dr Abdul Majeed and Badarul Islam have been asked to comply with the latest instructions.
The News has learnt that the passports would be used to track down foreign movement of these officials. Earlier, an SBP directive had sought bank account details of Dr AQ Khan, 16 members of his family and 12 other nuclear scientists and members of their families. The SBP had also directed commercial banks to forward details of accounts of the scientists such as account number and type, account opening form, latest balance and statement of accounts. An official said the government "simply wants to corroborate the statements made by the officials in custody or during the investigation with the situation on ground as it exists in the documents".
| Somebody's checking to see if the statements are the same as the facts. Gee, you'd think they were running a real investigation. |