Pressure mounts on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to expel Malik Naveed, former inspector general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) announced to start further investigations against him for possessing assets of millions of rupees.
Naveed, who joined the PTI last month after retiring as IGP, has already two inquiries against him pending with NAB.
Sources told Pakistan Today that Naveed allegedly embezzled funds while procuring arms and bullet-proof jackets for the provincial police – a purchase involving Rs 26 billion.
He is also being enquired for possessing assets beyond known means of income, and a corruption reference against him is pending with NAB in which he was granted bail from an accountability court, but NAB challenged the decision in Peshawar High Court and the reference has been accepted for hearing. In the reference, Naveed is accused of making hundreds of illegal recruitments in the Frontier Constabulary (FC) while he was its commandant before being appointed as KP police chief in 2008.
A senior PTI leader said the PTI’s provincial leadership has asked the chairman to expel Naveed from the party after NAB’s announcement to launch a probe against him. He said the party’s other leaders believed that the presence of a corrupt person in their ranks would violate the party’s agenda against corruption. He said the party’s provincial leaders were against giving membership to Naveed, but their concerns were ignored by the high command. Naveed was brought into the party by another former bureaucrat of KP who is currently an important PTI leader and has strong connections in the western countries, the PTI source said.
His membership should be suspended until completion of investigations….
So, how will PTI eradicate corruption from the country which it constantly claims to do while it continues to recruit corrupt members within its own party?
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