MULTAN, Nov 12: Private investigators hired by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Punjab are allegedly doing wrong than right to the ‘ehtesab’ process.
This was alleged by some of the officers against whom the NAB had initiated inquiries in the Punjab.
Talking to this correspondent, they said most of the ‘private sleuths’ were retired police or FIA officials who knew how to mint money from the accused personnel. “They sometimes ask for gratification directly to hush up the matter,” one of the officials alleged.
The accused officials said the NAB officials when came for investigations neither disclosed their identity nor served any search notice to enter their (accused officers’) premises. If argued, they termed it misbehave and complained to accountability authorities, they said.
It may be added that hundreds of government employees are awaiting the outcome of investigations initiated against them by NAB.
In some cases, the NAB complaint cell has not so far completed the preliminary investigations even after the passage of two years. Their cases are pending with the NAB irrespective of any consideration that whether the complaints lodged against them have any substance or they are the results of some personal grudge.
CATHOLIC CHURCH: The religious congregation of the Catholic church in Pakistan has called for a peaceful solution to the present crisis in Afghanistan.
Congregation’s central body Major Superiors Leadership Conference of Pakistan (MSLC) president sister Naseem George in a press statement here on Monday expressed concern over growing intolerance and hatred in the country.
She said the MSLC support the view that violence could not cut violence. ‘We condemn terrorist attacks in America and the way humanity is being assaulted in Afghanistan,” she added.
She maintained the present war in Afghanistan was penetrating a sense of insecurity among Christians due to the overwhelming fear existed in this minority of the country.
The MSLC demanded judicial inquiry into the Bahawalpur carnage, arrest of culprits and ban on the activities of the organizations, revamping of syllabi in institutes to avoid texts that create hatred among learners, restoration of joint electorate and publicizing the facts regarding the role of the minorities in the formation of Pakistan.