PESHAWAR, May 31: Pakistan People’s Party has alleged that the government is striking a deal with those politicians who had been involved in the Mehran Bank scandal and siphoned off millions of rupees from the national exchequer.

In a statement, a PPP spokesman said the meeting of NWFP chief secretary and the inspector general of police with Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, chief of his own faction in the Peshawar jail exposed the secret deal between the government and Sherpao.

He alleged that the main character of the Mehran Bank scam, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Leghari, was also a part of this deal. Mr Sherpao, he said, was arrested by the NAB in various cases and was in detention in Peshawar jail.

The spokesman claimed that the government wanted to release Mr Sherpao.

KURRAM-TANGI DAM: Meanwhile, the NWFP government has banned mutation and development of land in villages in the Kurram-Tangi dam’s water reservoir area, according to official sources.