PESHAWAR, Nov 2: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested a private secretary to the NWFP secretary education on the charges of accumulating of assets beyond his sources of income.

According to an official statement, the NAB authorities arrested Iftikhar Ahmed Bhatti, son of Iqbal Bhatti, from his residence here on Tuesday. He would be produced before the Accountability Court on Wednesday, the statement added.

It said that Iftikhar Bhatti belonged to a humble family of Azad Kashmir, who migrated to Peshawar during late 50s. He after doing Matriculation, joined the government service as stenotypist in BPS-8 in 1976 with a salary of Rs180 per month and later on continued as private secretary to the Secretary Education, NWFP, Peshawar.

It was during this tenure that he and his spouse purchased plots and National Saving Certificates worth millions of rupees, which were grossly disproportionate to their legal sources of income.