SAHIWAL, June 15: The National Accountability Bureau has sought the 12-year financial record of Sahiwal Divisional Public School and College under an educational trust presided over by former DCs.

The record has been sought after the principal alleged that a sum of Rs4 million was withdrawn by a former deputy commissioner from school funds. The principal had earlier reported a Rs1.3 million embezzlement by the school office superintendent, Badar Amir, and requested the district Nazim to register a case.

The Nazim got a case registered against the OS but implicated the principal as well. On registration of a case against him, the principal came up with allegations of his own and claimed that former DC Raja Hassan Abbas had withdrawn Rs4 million from school funds.

The Sahiwal DPS was established in 1986 by the then DC Syed Tajammal Abbas. The former DCs who acted as chairman of the educational trust include the late Syed Tajammal Abbas and Bashir Tahir, Khawaja Muhammad Naeem, Shaukat Ali Rana, Iqbal Ahmed Bosan, Masood Ahmed Shah, Raja Hassan Abbas, Hassan Nawaz, Dr Haseeb Athar, Rao Iftikhar Ahmed, Fazal Abbas Maikan and Nasrullah Chatha.

EXECUTED: Two murder convicts were executed here at the central jail on Tuesday morning. The convicts - Dossa and Wazeer alias Naseer - killed two brothers, Imam Ali and Muhammad Ali, on Sept 27, 1990. A sessions court in Okara awarded death sentence to the two on Feb 2, 1992, which was confirmed by high court on Feb 13, 1998.

Subsequently, the Supreme Court and the president turned down their appeals for mercy on May 30, 2002, and Sept 26, 2003, respectively. The Okara district and sessions judge twice fixed the dates for their execution, but it was postponed on the convicts' requests for getting some time for reconciliation.

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