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| November 7, 2003 | Friday | Ramazan 11, 1424 |
NAB prepares new case against Hashmi
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The National Accountability Bureau has prepared a fresh corruption reference against ARD president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, who has already been arrested for allegedly abetting mutiny.
A source told Dawn on Wednesday that the NAB had completed investigation in a fresh case against Mr Hashmi to be sent to an accountability court shortly.
Mr Hashmi is already on bail in a case of possessing assets beyond known sources of income which is being tried in the accountability court, Lahore.
The source said that in the new case the NAB has alleged that Mr Hashmi had taken possession of a land belonging to the Auqaf Department, and had illegally sold the land making millions of rupees through the transaction.
The source said that Mr Hashmi has also been accused of acquiring houses in Islamabad, Multan and three houses in his ancestral village Mukhdoom Rasheed, one cotton factory, one oil mill and about 500 acres of agricultural land and a number of vehicles through illegal means.
When contacted, Maimoona Hashmi, the daughter of Mr Hashmi, said: “My father and other family members have nothing more than what Mr Hashmi had declared at the time of last elections. We invite the government to compare our assets, which we now possess against those that we had before the elections.”
She said the NAB had nothing new against Mr Hashmi, but it was only opening new cases by levelling old charges made against him in the previous case.
She said the charges which were being levelled against her father in the fresh case had already been heard by the court and their counsels had argued on them. However, the NAB had failed to prove even a single allegation of illegal assets levelled against her father, she added.
She said government could not meet its objectives by politically victimising Mr Hashmi or keeping him behind bars.
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