he Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has nominated Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Musa Gilani, former health secretary Khushnood Akhtar Lashari, MNA Mian Abdul Satttar and acting secretary Ministry of Narcotics Control Zafar Abbas as accused in the Rs 7 billion ephedrine chemical quota scam. ANF’s Regional Director Brigadier Fahim Ahmed Khan on Thursday submitted an application along with additional documents with the Supreme Court, nominating eight new accused in the ephedrine chemical quota scam. In the application, Brigadier Fahim alleged that acting secretary narcotics was willfully committing conspiracy and had associated himself with the accused in the case.
He contended that the allocation of ephedrine quota was the violation of the UN Convention. The ANF has already initiated investigation against 10 people, including Dr Rashid Juma, Iftikhar Ahmed Babar, Rizwan Ahmed Khan, Ihsanur Rehman, Tanvirul Hassan Shirazi, Chaudhry Abdual Waheed, Ansir Farooq Chaudhry, Col (r) Tahir Alwadood Lahoti, Muhammad Hashim Khan and Taqueer Ali Khan. Regarding the role of Ministry of Narcotics Control, Brigadier Fahim said Zafar Abbas Lak took charge as the acting secretary of the Ministry of Narcotics with an ulterior motive to sabotage and mislead the investigation and distort the evidence and rescue Ali Musa Gilani, Tauqeer Ali Khan, Mian Abdul Sattar and Khushnood Lashari. He further said that Zafar Abbas had replied to accused Rizwan Ahmed in response to his application and on the direction of Islamabad High Court that “no direct evidence about misuse of quota by DANAS Pharma has been established/found per his inference”, basing on fake inquiry report. “While giving such a reply to an accused, the secretary totally and deliberately discarded the evidence against the accused already collected and placed on record before the trial court.” The brigadier said M/S Berlax and DANAS Pharma administration claimed to have manufactured 218 million and 85 million tablets, but there was no genuine document supporting the record held at all with the companies.
“The lower staff and other supplier of raw material do not support the stance of the companies,” the ANF regional director said.
The Supreme Court will hear the ephedrine chemical scam today (Friday).
GILANI WARNS: Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani warned ANF chief Brig Fahim Ahmad Khan against crossing his limits in the drug quota scandal case.
Addressing a ceremony of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Gilani said that Fahim should not forget that he was working under the civilian government, thus it was imperative for him to abide by the “civilian laws”. He also termed him a “borrowed officer”. “The ANF chief should also remember that the civilian government “borrowed” him from the armed services”, said the prime minister.
ANF nominates PM’s son in Rs 7b drug scam
